<p>At Penn...is there high economics ranking off of wharton or cas? I have no interest in going to work right away, but would rather pursue a jd or phd in economics.
Also, emory has a top 5 business program, but are they really lacking in economics?</p>
<p>I'll revive this thread so you guys can answer post #162. Very good question.</p>
<p>"what about a place like uni of illinois at urbana champaign? the business (accy. & finance) school is good but i never heard anything about the econ department"</p>
<p>Worldwide</a> Ranking of Economics Departments and Economists - Fullscreen</p>
<p>I was surfing google and came across these departmental rankings. The actual rankings start at like page 57 or so.</p>
<p>I would assume that those rankings work for graduate programs, but the undergraduate programs might not coorelate. I think that # of publications, and # of citations works for graduate programs especially doctoral programs, but things like average salary, recruitment, and placement in grad school lend to a better undergraduate ranking.</p>
<p>What about Brandeis u. econ program?</p>
<p>Just got accepted to UChicago... and want to major in econ i'm delighted</p>
<p>How about Vanderbilt or Notre Dame?<br>
Tell me about investment banking opportunities from these schools?
Can you compare them?</p>
<p>What's stronger in the South?
Does N.D. have prestige w/ southern investment banks?</p>
<p>Sorry about this digression</p>
<p>I have know a guy who went to notre dame, double majored in econ and finance, and is now working with goldman.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about Stanford vs. UChicago in econ?</p>
<p>how about Indiana University? i know its not going to be top 10 but it should be close. they just had a guy from there appointed to President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank</p>
<p>How is George Washington University? Is GWU's economics program reputable? Does it make the cut for any recruiters, like Goldman Sachs or Merill Lynch? Does it have a good record for sending students to good grad schools?</p>
<p>what about the econ major at NYU Stern? I know that most econ majors are offered in liberal arts schools but will taking econ at an undergrad business school be any different from taking it at a liberal arts school?</p>
<p>Um, I know this is only for undergrad and all, but does anyone have extensive info on best grad school economics programs?</p>
<p>"Does anyone know about Stanford vs. UChicago in econ?"
You'll probably get slightly more I-Banking opportunities from Stanford than Chicago (Comparing Coast to Chicago offers). I could be wrong, however. The two are fairly close at the undergraduate level (in terms of quality). The environments are quite different, however. Stanford is more "jocky/ bay area hippie" and Chicago is a more intellectual/quirky university. </p>
<p>GWU is best connected for work in policy (from their Economics department). Beyond that I cannot say much. </p>
<p>Sedna, for graduate economics programs, econphd.net</a> Admission Guide,
this is the best information I have found yet. The "best" graduate economics program is highly debated. Chicago has more of a strong belief in models, and is more ideological in that sense. MIT and Harvard tend to be more cynical towards how applicable the models are to real life. Hopefully that helps.</p>
<p>Wow, yes it does, and thank you!</p>
<p>Do you also have more guides over getting into top grad schools, because I wanna start early, VERY early.</p>
<p>
[quote]
Do you also have more guides over getting into top grad schools, because I wanna start early, VERY early.<a href="1">/quote</a> Do research
(2) Take all the math courses you can, do well
(3) Do research
(4) More math courses
(5) Make friends with professors through research, get spectacular recommendations
(6) ???
(7) Profit</p>
<p>uh, I get the math courses and all and the butt-kissing but... you gotta elaborate a bit on the others. What do you mean exactly by profit and do research?</p>
<p>Profit = get into a good graduate program</p>
<p>By do research I mean... uh, do research? In school. Where professors do things. They have opening for research assistants, you show interest in economics and take part in their research during the year and over summers, hopefully you get your name on a couple of things. Send said research you took part in to graduate admission committees.</p>
<p>wow thank you that helps.</p>
<p>and would writing articles and stuff similar helps, because right now I'm already doing something over the faults of the welfare state, from it's implication to it's end, and it's like 10 pages long already.</p>
<p>and luckily I'm just starting undergrad :D</p>
<p>As an undergraduate you will never publish a paper in a respectable journal because nothing you do will be of consequence. I don't mean to sound like a dick, but I absolutely want to dash that dream for you now so you don't waste time on it--because a bad paper in a second-rate journal is worse than no research at all, and will hurt you badly even if you don't submit it assuming it's found.</p>
<p>If you're talking about a term paper, or whatever else the case may be, of course you're going to submit that to graduate programs. You'll submit your best paper or two most likely as part of a portfolio of work. That comes back to doing well in regular undergraduate econ classes, though. I doubt whatever you're writing in your first year will be any good, though. 10 pages long is nothing, plenty of very intelligent people have dedicated time to studying welfare and we are not a welfare state (unless you're going to look at certain European countries which have oil revenues that make a welfare state viable, and as a society they appear to have decided that the moral implications of not having a welfare state trump faults, making your analysis irrelevant and purely academic), so I'm not sure where you'd be going with that paper anyway.</p>