<p>Well I was just playfully disagreeing with you so there is no reason to get your panties all up in a bunch.</p>
<p>I agree with YaleSocietyMember. I prefer Economics at the undergraduate level. When I was an undergrad, I could have majored in Business but decided to stay with Econ because it was more intellectually stimulating. As far as jobs go, I had offers from Lehamn Brothers and Goldman Sachs upon graduation...one in NYC and one in London. I was a good but not great student (3.5 GPA), so it's not like you have to be a whiz kid to make it happen. I would pick them in the following order:</p>
<p>Northwestern
Penn
Michigan
UVA
UNC </p>
<p>Northwestern has an incredibly strong faculty in Economics. Penn and Michigan are about the same in Econ, but I give the slight edge to Penn. But it really boils down to your preferences. But they are all so good, you can pick any of the 5 and you will be fine. I personally picked Michigan over Northwestern and Penn because I preferred Ann Arbor to Evanston and Philapelphia.</p>
<p>does anyone have any links or places where i can find official rankings. im a junior starting the college admissions process and looking strongly into an undergraduate degree in economics. i have a 4.1 gpa with many ap courses, so i think i can be a strong candidate at many top schools</p>
<p>Wow, this is an old thread! How did you find this?</p>
<p>google search</p>
<p>Hey ucbenz,</p>
<p>Haven't seen you in a while. How do you like your classes you'd taken so far? What about MMSS? I believe you are in it. </p>
<p>As for me, I will be another engineer switching to business/finance field. Once I get my greencard, I will apply for MBA. I do wonder where I'd be at had I majored in econ at NU instead of chemE. One thing I know is I'd probably have more fun at NU..lol..as chemE was known to be the bootcamp major at NU. :)</p>
<p>Wesleyan should get some mention here too....I think. :)</p>
<p>top Econ schools - Ivies, NU, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Chicago...can't go wrong with any of those, add on LACs as you like</p>
<p>Based on that, I think NU is the best your applying to for just econ, but if you want to go into finance Wharton at Penn is better, than UNC and UVA</p>
<p>The OP did express some interest in Michigan, which has a top 10 Econ department and a top 3 undergraduate finance department.</p>
<p>how are u guys saying 10 ten or top 3, does any1 know of the official rankings?</p>
<p>No...because every ranking on the face of this planet claims to be the official one.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad for economics:</p>
<p>MIT
Chicago
Stanford
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
U Minnesota
U Penn
U Wisc Madison
UC Berkeley
Northwestern
U Rochester
Columbia
UCLA
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
Brown
UC San Diego
Duke
Cornell
NYU
UVA
UC Davis
U Washington
U Maryland College Park
Michigan State
UNC Chapel Hill
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Texas A&M
Boston U
Washington U St Louis
Purdue West Lafayette
USC
U Texas Austin
Vanderbilt
Ohio State
Iowa State
SUNY Stony Brook
U Iowa
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara
U Pittsburgh
Virginia Tech
Claremont McKenna
Rutgers New Brunswick</p>
<p>For liberal arts colleges only:</p>
<p>Hint - ignore Gourman Report</p>
<p>Where would Brown rank in undergrad economics?</p>
<p>For economics, there are only two:</p>
<p>Chicago & MIT</p>
<p>Brown is excellent in Economics. Not top 10, but definitely top 25.</p>
<p>wow, how come duke and cornell are ranked so low.</p>
<p>does the gourman report come pretty close to everyone's expectations?</p>
<p>these rankings mean nothing. if you just want an economics education, most schools can teach you what you need to know. you may want to go to a place like harvard or mit mostly because of recruitment. the best econ school IMO is UChicago but any top 30 USN&WR school can offer you a comparable education at the undergrad level. you just have to look at mba acceptance rate and average starting sallary of econ majors that graduate from a school to give you an idea of which one you want to go to.</p>
<p>"you just have to look at mba acceptance rate and average starting sallary of econ majors that graduate from a school to give you an idea of which one you want to go to"</p>
<p>Where would I find these statistics, venkater.</p>