<p>can anyone run down a list for me of the premeir economics undergrad schools</p>
<p>i know princeton supposedly has the best</p>
<p>The top five schools for undergrad econ are (in no order): Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, MIT, UC-Berkeley. Personally, Chicago and Princeton are the two "best" in terms of reputation, but all five are stellar.</p>
<p>Here's a list of the top-25 undergrad producers of PhDs in Economics for the most recent 10 year period. The list shows the number of Econ PhDs per 1000 undergrads:</p>
<p>Sidenote: I don't believe that focusing on a specific department should be high on the list of criteria for selecting an undergrad college for most students, especially in an ultra-popular major like Economics where all good schools have quality departments. It's kind of like asking, "which grocery stores have good milk and bread"?</p>
<p>thats for PhD's, I don't really think they have a ranking for top undergrad departments</p>
<p>however, I'd go with the overall school rankings</p>
<p>oh ok thx
u think so interestad? cuz if my intended major is economics, i was just looking for a school that is very prestigious in that department, and fits my other likes in a college, just for this purpose i was askin specifically</p>
<p>It's worth looking at the Economics offerings in passing. However, as you can see from my list, the "top" economics departments can be found at very, very different types of schools. Compare, for example, Williams versus MIT or Swarthmore versus Harvard. The economics departments would pale be comparison to the bigger issues of size, location, campus culture, etc.</p>
<p>I would also point out that most college students do not end up majoring in what they thought they would when they graduated from high school. That being the case, the odds are that, no matter what you envision today, you probably won't end up as an Econ major.</p>
<p>well im not most people, im pretty keen in ym interests now
but for discussion purposes since u seem like u can help me</p>
<p>what are your top ___ large schools for economics departments ( largish classes), in city enviornment( suburban town is fine as well), in the north east, with any culture im adaptable</p>
<p>I don't know. I've never really looked for schools with large class sizes. Economics is such a popular major that you are likely to find large classes at just about every university, especially in the basic courses for the first couple of years.</p>
<p>Harvard, Columbia, and Penn are all big-city urban campuses with a reputation for large entry-level class sizes.</p>
<p>MIT is a big-city urban campus, but, it has very few undergrads majoring in fields other than science, math, and engineering, so the class sizes in economics and other social sciences may not be as large.</p>
<p>Yale and Brown are both "urban" campuses, but in much smaller cities.</p>
<p>Among schools with less selectivity, both BU and NYU are big-city urban schools to the point that neither even really has a campus in the traditional sense. Both would have the large classes you are looking for.</p>
<p>alright i appreciate it man</p>
<p>No one beats Chicago in ECON. Unless of course you are a prestige whore, and you dont want to waste all your precious community hours on a little-worse-than-top-tier university, go for Princeton.</p>
<p>Im not trying to be sarcastic, hostile or anything, but I dont kknow how to put it any other way:P</p>
<p>haha i didnt take any offense to it thanks</p>
<p>Chicago is legendary in the econ world. Even in high school econ class, we watch videos that have lengthy segmetns dealing with "Chicago-school" economics.</p>
<p>How is Stanford's program? Noteworthy?</p>
<p>Stanford's is excellent.</p>
<p>Theres a pretty high correlation between overall school goodness and economics major</p>
<p>I would look for the one with the most course offerings and the one that allows you to take advanced courses earlier</p>
<p>"Theres a pretty high correlation between overall school goodness and economics major"</p>
<p>That's very true, with Duke being the possible exception. Their econ program is good but not great.</p>
<p>Northwestern University!</p>
<p>Well I'm going to Duke for econ, I don't really know how to tell how good an undergrad econ program is compared to another undergrad econ, so I chose it based on overall school instead</p>
<p>but yeah, overall schools are what I used to pick</p>
<p>I heard Duke's econ program is really good??????</p>
<p>University of Chicago has, by far, the best Economics program. Currently, 4 Nobel Prize laurautes teach Economics there (Gary Becker, Robert Fogel, James Heckman, Milton Friedman; wow just listen to these names). "The Chicago Gang of Three" (Stigler, Peltzman, and Becker) obviously teach at U of Chicago as well. </p>
<p>"Seventy-seven Nobel Laureates have been faculty members, students or researchers at the University of Chicago at some point in their careers. Fourteen have won the Nobel Prize in the last decade alone. </p>
<p>Of the 77 Laureates, 26 have won in Physics, 22 in Economic Sciences, 15 in Chemistry, 11 in Physiology or Medicine and three in Literature." from the University of Chicago Website.</p>