<p>@rd31</p>
<p>the rankings were for the GRADUATE level, not the undergraduate. Economics at Duke UNDERGRADUATE is 5th (remember student mentioning it on campus when I was there last week). And if Economics is what you are after, or business as a whole, Duke’s #1 hirer is Goldman Sachs, again the greatest investment banking firm in the world. I don’t know who Yale’s biggest hirer is.</p>
<p>And I don’t want to degredate Yale, for to be honest I would have gone there had I got in. Just one aside about economics at Yale, when I sat in on a math class and talked with their math department office, they mentioned that because the math major is so challenging, many kids drop to economics. At Duke, economics is taken so seriously that a significant portion drops out after the first two courses, which are supposedly killers. Just a thought.</p>