<p>How is the econ department at Irvine? It is nice to see the new programs they added but I am just wondering how the department actually compares with the other UC's. I am interested in the Business econ track and any information on the strengths of the department (ie. macro/micro, finance, qauntitative, public policy, ect.) would be great.</p>
<p>Since they're just being enstated, it's too hard to tell at the moment.</p>
<p>UCLA and UCSB have decent rankings for Business Econ</p>
<p>UCSD is a Top 15 school nationally for Econ</p>
<p>UCB is a contender is any of the Econ disciplines</p>
<p>Given the general Econ major (I am an Econ major at UCI), id say its worse than UCB, UCSD, UCLA, probably tied with UCSB, better than all other UCs not listed. Hmm maybe UCD is up there - I dont know. UCI econ isnt that great but the way they are restructuring things should make it more competitive. Their new stats requirement is killer - its meant to prepare you for grad courses in econ - a ton of people dropped the major - over 100 people from my class. Yikes.</p>
<p>Do you have a specific emphasis in the econ major? And what stats requirement are you talking about?</p>
<p>Outono - what are you basing your evaluation of the UCI econ major on? Seems like you're just guessing and making assumptions.</p>
<p>I am basing the evaluation on my personal experience in the major (I am an econ major), information I have received from other faculty as UCI, and various rankings given by US News, Time, etc..</p>
<p>UCI has a largely foreign professor body in the Econ department - the reason being that the majority of high quality US econ professors go to CAL and UCLA first, then UCSD, and then finally the left overs are spread out amongst the rest of the UCs (Information given to me by faculty). Based on rankings for econ, what I have written is the general position of each school relative to one another (although I believe UCSB now ranks higher than Irvine now). Not to mention, I spent a great deal of time researching each of the UCs (for the most part) on their Economics prowess in order to accurately choose which UCs would be best for my interests as a transfer student. What I found is generally what is given in my other post.</p>
<p>And no I dont have any emphasis in the Econ major because my class (and prior classes) have not had the ability to focus on more than anything other than a general econ major. You can take upper division courses that take you in a certain direction, but you wont have an "emphasis" put on your degree.</p>
<p>The stats requirement is Stats 110A/B/C - my year was the first to be stuck with it. Out of nearly 400 kids in the Fall, almost 100 dropped the class due to its tough curriculum including me (I got an A- in the Fall quarter but I figured it wasnt worth going through two more quarters especially since I didnt want to do econ anymore).</p>
<p>Real quick:</p>
<p>Based on US News World Report: Berkeley ranks 3 for Public finance, 2 for Development Economics, and UCSD ranks 2 for Econometrics. I cant recall UCLAs rankings except that they are way up there. UCSB is way toward the bottom, but normally at the same level or barely higher than UCI (when put out of 50 schools).</p>
<p>Shows the ranking of journals (which is how most programs are graded) by another source. It has CAL, UCSD, and UCLA in that order.</p>
<p>Outono, you scaring me to death. 100 out of how many??!??!? I'm a transfer student and wanted to know Is it that hard, or were those 100 slackers????</p>