<p>well, that paper is just a start, and by no means it's finished (I have the next 4 years to do so)</p>
<p>oh yeah it's not going to be published at all, it's strictly for something I'm gonna use for grad school admissions, yeah I'm not that talented.</p>
<p>So, besides term papers, doing the work of a professor's lackey, anything else I need to take notes on?</p>
<p>Skim The Making of an Economist (it's a book). Your library should carry it.</p>
<p>Does anyone know where Emory ranks as undergraduate econ. school?
probably going into law field and know emory as great history school but unsure about econ.
a little help anyone?</p>
<p>^bump i want to know about emory too</p>
<p>It's really hard to rank any majors in the liberal arts but I seriously wouldn't worry about attending Emory for their economics program since they have many big recruiters due to their strength of Goizueta Business School.</p>
<p>How would you all rank the economics programs within the state of Colorado? I'm curious because my parents are making me stay in-state for college. They want me close to home for at least the first couple years.</p>
<p>I know Boulder is pretty good. I went there for 3 years. The econ dept was very good, with great professors. It inspired me to be an econ major actually and now I am transferring to UCSD for econ/management science in the fall (the whole switching majors thing would not have been cost effective if I stayed out of state, so UCSD is cheaper)</p>
<p>But ya, I'd rank it like this:</p>
<ol>
<li>CU</li>
<li>CSU</li>
<li>DU (does the co. school of mines have econ?, if so I would maybe put that above DU, but maybe not, since they are engineering focused, right? DU is in the city, so ya, Im sure its legit.)
then the rest.
That is how it seemed to me from the attitude most had in Co., as well as the rep the schools have here in Cali.</li>
</ol>
<p>Colorado College is also worth a look. It is smaller, but it has an interesting system (the Block Plan) and at the undergraduate level, size of department is not all that important, although there is something to be said for taking graduate level courses, usually only availlable at universities with large research departments.</p>
<p>Where does Berkeley's undergrad econ program stand compared to the top schools?</p>
<p>Berkeley's Econ department is ranked among the top 10, arguably among the top 5 in the nation. Right now, along with Columbia's, it is one of the hottest departments in the nation.</p>
<p>Thanks evo9 and Alexandre. I'm really looking into both CU and CSU. Colorado College would be sweet, but it's on the expensive side.</p>
<p>What about BU's econ program?</p>
<p>Nevermind, I just saw Alexandre's list.</p>
<p>is emory's program good? i mean considering they have a great business program?</p>
<p>and what do u guy's think of syracuse university. I lived in maryland and chose syracuse university over university of maryland at college park. Mostly because i wanted smaller class sizes, preferred a smaller school, and wanted to get away from home. I am starting to regret my choice because i didn't see this list before hand. I'm a econ major and finance minor. As an undergrad i thought this doesn't matter as much but i'm really not sure now. I am taking out 5k a year in loans to go to syracuse when i could go to umd for free....but if i transferred i would want to go to a school better than umd but i don't think i would be able to get into any higher on that list. I'm just having second thoughts.</p>
<p>How much prestige does the Vanderbilt economics program carry?</p>
<p>So im currently an Econ English double major at Case Western Reserve University. I haven't found any rankings supporting their English department, but from my understanding they were ranked #41 in 2008 for business programs by Business week. The</a> Top Undergrad Business Schools - BusinessWeek</p>
<p>I have a number of issues with the school and after a dismal freshman year I am looking to transfer. I am originally from California, so the UC system looks like the cheapest route. I hate LA, so the two schools im looking at are Cal and UCSD. according to the same article above UCSD was marked #47 for business. I understand that a Business school is not the same as an economics program. I am wondering weather it is worth transferring there. </p>
<p>My second problem is where else I can get in. my current GPA from CWRU is 3.05 with a ACT score of 32. Would it be logical for me to attempt a school such as Cal Berkeley or should I attempt something a bit more modest?</p>
<p>Well, I suppose you can try and go off of the US News graduate rankings for economics, if you kind of want to get an idea of the relative standing of a certain university.</p>
<p>The thing is, everyone will care more about the name of the overall school than the strength in economics in particular. For example, no will say, "Wow Dartmouth econ is an amazing program." You will probably never hear that. They will just say, "Wow, Dartmouth is a great school. An econ degree from there must be valuable." The only exceptions I think are schools like UChicago, MIT, and Berkeley, where many hold their econ department in specially high regard. Other than that, there's really nothing too special about liberal arts degrees UNLESS you're going to get a Ph.D in a certain area. In MOST cases, going to a good school generally means going to a good program in liberal arts disciplines.</p>
<p>As for the few of you who have been asking about Vanderbilt's Econ program.</p>
<p>I decided to go to Vanderbilt for Engineering. But recently I added Economics as a second major.
That was basically completely due to an amazing professor I had. He teaches 100 and 101 at Vanderbilt and really got me hooked on it. He is a fairly notable Economist (Stephen Buckles) who has served as the director of many national organizations.</p>
<p>We also just recently had a Vandy grad get the Nobel Prize in Economics (Muhammed Yunus for Micro-banking).</p>
<p>It doesn't have as much name recognition in the North, but "Vanderbilt" opens a lot of doors in Nashville, Atlanta, St. Louis, Charlotte, etc. And the professors are great and it shouldn't be as hard to get into. Vanderbilt does not have grade inflation, which can be a good thing or a bad thing. But Banks know this and every year we have Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Duetche bank, BOA, and many others come through hiring our grads.</p>
<p>I would recommend the Economics program here to anyone, especially those southern boys and girls who hate the cold (that played a big role in my decision not to go to Cornell or RPI).</p>
<p>In reality, Vanderbilt probably isn't THE best, and might not be in most people's top 10, but its a great school, and a good program no matter how you slice it.</p>
<p>(That concludes this advertisement for Vanderbilt University) hehe</p>