<p>Anyone want to give their own opinion?</p>
<p>Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, grrrr..., why don't you guys learn? there is a thread on this that's like 10 pages long that you can search.</p>
<p>O yea, and Joshua you forgot one of the most important ones...MIT</p>
<p>These in any order:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Chicago</p>
<p>And then these in any order:</p>
<p>Columbia
Yale
Stanford
Berkeley</p>
<p>Northwestern should be up there too</p>
<p>how's emory?</p>
<p>Fair enough, pennfan2012.</p>
<p>These in any order:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Chicago</p>
<p>And then these in any order:</p>
<p>Columbia
Yale
Stanford
Berkeley </p>
<p>And after those, these in any order:</p>
<p>NYU
UPenn
Northwestern
UCLA</p>
<p>After that, well whatever -- there lots of other universities out there that are pretty good. These just happen to be the best of the best in the US for economic research, so if you do undergrad at any of these places you will be learning from some of the leading economists in the world.</p>
<p>@CNI: Emory is pretty average to be honest. Loads of better places you could go.</p>
<p>perhaps i'm biased towards Northwestern, but from what I've read Northwestern and UPenn are generally regarded as better than NYU and UCLA, closer to the Columbia group.</p>
<p>Wharton's BS. Econ degree is the best.
Not to be confused with the BA Econ degree from Penn's College of Arts and Sciences.
Yes, everyone at Wharton gets the same degree - Econ.</p>
<p>hmm i was just about to say that about wharton. I disagree w/ putting columbia over NYU as well</p>
<p>generally, the bs from wharton is considered a different animal. its seems to be closer to an (elite) BBA than an undergraduate econ program.</p>
<p>If you look at the faculty of the Columbia econ department and compare it to the faculty of the NYU econ department you might understand a bit better why Columbia leads NYU in economic research, and why Columbia profs would be (in many people's opinions) more desirable to study under.</p>
<p>If all you care about is finding a job after, then there are loads of places you can go and this ranking doesn't really apply. Just pick some private school with an aura of prestige and lots of recruiters and loyal alumni (Wharton or something) -- you don't even have to study anything quantitative as long as your degree is from the right university. Obviously, you don't need a ranking for that. However, if you are actually interested in economics for reasons other than careerist ambitions, then you might care which universities are leading the world in economic thought. It is for these people that I posted those groupings of the best-of-the-best universities for economics, where as an undergraduate you can learn from the leading thinkers in the world.</p>
<p>Where would you guys rank UCSD?</p>
<p>I also disagree with putting Columbia over NYU, Penn and NU.</p>
<p>I don;t......</p>
<p>You should. The latter two especially outrank Columbia greatly.</p>
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<p>What, NYU? Are you kidding me? What is your basis for such statements?</p>
<p>The economics department at Columbia is one of the most renowned and respected departments at the school. Columbia is home to some of the greatest economic minds in the world. The economics department is home to the 1996, 1999, 2001, and 2006 Nobel Prize winners in the field.</p>
<p>Yeah Columbia is a pretty solid econ school. And they did this huge wave of hiring not too long ago of some hot-shot youngsters. So Columbia's econ department is going to be a force to watch in the coming years I think. And NYC is just Finance City USA. Lots of good opportunities there.</p>
<p>You can't go wrong with Chicago of course. Place is synonymous with economics. MIT is great too, Harvard also, and Stanford. I think Yale is just a touch below them (but probably better placement that Chicago or MIT, don't know though)</p>
<p>I think Northwestern has a really solid program. They actually won some student econ competition not too long ago (beat out Chicago...jerks, haha)</p>
<p>Well, I've heard from a source that's not necessarily accurate, that a degree in Econ. from U Chicago is the most lucrative along with Comp. Science from MIT and maybe a few from some ivies. Plus, an entire school of econ. thought was named after the place.</p>
<p>Thanks for that, red sox 7327.</p>
<p>I'd just like to reiterate that Columbia has a phenomenal economics department, one of the best in the world. Anyone who has serious doubts about Columbia being ranked above NYU... give your head a shake, then go do a bit of research on the actual ECON departments themselves (no, that doesn't mean business schools, and no, that doesn't mean the USNEWS website either). I recommend you start by looking at Columbia's economics faculty list, which, if you know anything about economics, should blow your mind.</p>