Economics-major, Introverted, picky - looking for intellectual safeties

College Search & Selection
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<p>46% of Wisconsin classes have less than 20 students; 20% have 50 or more.
It’s a Big Ten school with 25 Division 1 intercollegiate sports.
This year, Playboy magazine named it the country’s number 2 party school.
9% of men are in fraternities, 8% of women are in sororities.
2/3 of undergraduates are from Wisconsin.
It has 43,000 students.</p>

<p>You can look up economics course enrollment sizes from the following page:
<a href=“https://portal.isispub.wisc.edu:7052/psp/public/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/COMMUNITY_ACCESS.CLASS_SEARCH.GBL[/url]”>https://portal.isispub.wisc.edu:7052/psp/public/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/COMMUNITY_ACCESS.CLASS_SEARCH.GBL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>USNWR ranks its graduate economics department 13th.
For economics PhD production adjusted for institution size, according to my calculations from NRC data it ranks 147th (12 econ PhDs in 2007-11; 31,040 bachelors degrees granted in 2002-2006). Adjusted for program size, according to my calculations it ranks 130th (12 econ PhDs in 2007-11; 1,158 bachelors degrees in econ awarded in 2002-06.)</p>

<p>Other state universities in the USNWR top 25 economics graduate programs: Berkeley, Minnesota, UCLA, UCSD, Maryland. Minnesota or Maryland probably could be considered safeties for full-pay, OOS students with the OP’s stats.</p>