<p>Hello, I am Sarah, I am already a sophmore at the Univeristy of Maryland. I was curious, what are the top schools with the best economic program? US Newsweek has them on its site, but at a price. Can anyone tell me how they rank economic programs, and where maryland is? I am not sure, but i might be intrested in transfering. Anyways, any feedback is appreciated, Thank You.</p>
<p>This is possibly a mistake. I don't know what you want to do, but Maryland has some of the top economists in the country. If you're not fully exploiting courses and research possibilities at College Park, you're unlikely to do better elsewhere. Overall, faculty productivity is easily among the top 25 or top 20 in the country.</p>
<p>If you plan to go to grad school in econ, take advanced econ courses and a lot more math. Why don't you go in and see some of the faculty and talk to them about your ambitions? Or do you want to do an MBA or Law School? Then the ranking of your econ program would be almost irrelevant. Or are your plans for ibanking or finance? Just talk to someone there. </p>
<p>My guess is that doing better at Maryland is a wiser plan than moving to any other school, having to deal with readjustment, and then getting to know the new faculty without clear tangible benefits.</p>
<p>I agree with not quite old guy 200%!!!</p>
<p>FWIW, quite a few years back, my acquaintance who was struggling with his PhD in economics, told me ruefully that he wished he could have mastered higher level math while he was in undergrad. He also told me his advisor was a very famous professor, who was like a perennial Nobel Economics candidate (but never won) and a very tough old cookie as I was told. Long story short. He couldn't finish his doctorate, but got a great job and now living happily in a Potomac mansion..( so I guess it turned out not too bad for him). </p>
<p>Moral of story: </p>
<p>1) If you are serious about getting your PhD in economics, you?d better take some hard math courses (graduate-level preferred). And I have no doubt that your UMCP math/econ dept. has a plenty to offer.
2) More famous your dissertation advisor is, the harder it will be to get your PhD. I also know of a guy (brilliant, top student) who spent 7 years to get his economic PhD in Yale.</p>
<p>If you're looking for some school with top economics programs, the schools invariably have equally strong math depts (or vice versa). Just to name a few:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Chicago
Princeton
Berkeley
UMich
Stanford.</p>
<p>Caltech has also very strong math.requriements I heard. So its graduates will have easier times when he/she should go for a PhD in economics in the aforementioned great economics schools.</p>
<p>Best of Luck to You!!!</p>