<p>What are they?</p>
<p>where does vanderbilt stack up</p>
<p>go to post 14 on this thread. i like how Alexandre puts them.
uhh, i guess he didnt put vanderbilt in the rankings...sorry
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=137062%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=137062</a></p>
<p>yeah, but what about vandy?</p>
<p>i'm going into investment banking</p>
<p>there is no finance major at vandy, so all those people gravitate towards the economics major
it obviously holds some prestige based on the name alone
one of the profs (buckles) is internationally renowned (well, more than one, just an example) in the field. they fly him in twice a week from CT to lecture. you'll take him freshman year in either micro or macro
in terms of its prominence in ibanking firms etc... most bulge bracket firms (as in "brand names" on wall street) place vandy as a secondary target school (about 4 are primary targets, hyp and wharton, vandy falls as a secondary with rest of the ivies and duke and stanford usually, so if that's your key concern it's right up there...plus, we have more fun here)</p>
<p>"i'm going into investment banking"</p>
<p>-Who isn't...... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>ur really saing vandy compares with teh other ivies?</p>
<p>how does it stack up against big state schoolslike michigan,ucla,uva?</p>
<p>Are you sure it's right up there with STANFORD, DUKE, and the other IVIES?...</p>
<p>If we have to separate it all into tiers, I would say that the names I just listed are a little bit ABOVE Vandy. Vandy is probably a semi-target compared to the others.</p>
<p>well theres no way it could be considred with standofrd and duke, but i would hoe it was above impersonal schools like uva or ut</p>
<p>Seriously, unless you are absolutely brilliant at economics, any school that tends to admit a highly motivated and academically skilled student body should do. If, as an undergrad, you want to do original work in games theory or the like, and you're THAT good, then you'll want to go to one of the higher ranked programs with superstars on the faculty.</p>
<p>For the VAST majority of undergrads, it's really not going to matter.</p>
<p>Let me amend that just a bit. IF you want to go on to get a Ph.D., then you'll be well served by going to a place with very well regarded faculty members. A recommendation from one of them can make a big difference in where you go to grad school.</p>
<p>what about for jsut getting a job after college, and possibly returnign for an MBA</p>
<p>Econ dept rank has nothing to do with getting a job. For getting a job in finance/ banking:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wharton, Stanford, MIT</li>
<li>Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Duke</li>
<li>Brown, Cornell, Amherst, Williams, Chicago, Northwestern, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, Berkeley Haas</li>
<li>Vanderbilt, UVA (econ or business), Notre Dame, Rice, Georgetown, etc.</li>
</ol>
<p>u said it has nothing to do, and then you ranked them, that doesn't make much sense</p>
<p>He didn't ranked them based on their econ. rankings.</p>
<p>o he jstue ranked thembased on relative prestige...?</p>
<p>^Yep. I think it's a combination of that, as well as recruitment stats and such. </p>
<p>Although I'd actually bump Chicago up. Their econ program is really getting at lot of attention right now.</p>
<p>most of the schools listed our business schools though</p>
<p>I'll repost Alexandre's earlier one..:</p>
<p>Most schools that have good Business programs have solid Econ departments. But it does not hold true the other way around.</p>
<p>At any rate, if I had to "group" Econ programs, I would go with 5 groups. Even schools in the fifth group have awesome Econ programs mind you.</p>
<p>GROUP I:
Harvard University
Masachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II:
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>GROUP IV:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>GROUP V:
Boston University
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Although not listed above, many LACs also have excellent Econ departments. Chief among them are:
Amherst College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Dartmouth College (not quite a LAC, but it does not offer graduate degrees in Econ either)
Denison University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>Econ department has nothing to do with recruiting strength. This rank is for recruiting in finance and banking. Recruiters could care less about econ strength.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wharton, Stanford, MIT</li>
<li>Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Duke</li>
<li>Brown, Cornell, Amherst, Williams, Chicago, Northwestern, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, Berkeley Haas</li>
<li>Vanderbilt, UVA (econ or business), Notre Dame, Rice, Georgetown, etc.</li>
</ol>
<p>Using core recruiting lists published on vault and other places.</p>