<p>I am Korean and I surf around Korean website very frequently. And found this ranking for undergrad. econ major program. What do you guy's think? This ranking was created by the one of the major newspaper groups in Korea which I find pretty respectable. </p>
<p>1st MIT
2nd Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University,
University of Chicago
6th UC-Berkeley
7th Yale University
8th Northwestern University
9th University of Pennsylvania
10th University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>You are confusing Business and Economics. In Business education, Wharton (Penn) is one of the top 3 or 4. In Economics, Penn, although still remarkable, is not considered one of the top 5 or 6 departments. Most would rank Penn's Econ department between #7 and #10.</p>
<p>There is very little overlap between good business and economics departments, just as there is little overlap between good engineering and physics departments. One is professional, one is academic, and although the professional field relies on the academic field, it usually only requires low level courses in that area.</p>
<p>I'm probably going to UCSD, and majoring in economics. I chose it over business, however, besides teaching, realistically what is the job outlook for economics (at grad level)? I really don't want to be doing financial assessing in front of a computer for some little company for the rest of my life...</p>
<p>Hedge Fund manager
Financial Analysist
Lawyer
etc... most of the careers that Econ majors can go into are very professional and well paying, I heard....
But because it is such a popular major and more of an academical rather than practical such as business or accounting, you would need advanced degrees in order to step ahead, unless you are the one who were born to do this...</p>
<p>I would say an Economics degree from any Top 20 national university or Top 20 LAC would be more respected and open more doors as far as job placement or graduate schools are concerned than an Economics degree from Minn, Wisc, Mich.</p>
<p>The data indicate that it is far more important that you are smart enough to get into highly competitive schools than it is to actually go to one. The Dale-Krueger study (Princeton) has been widely reported.</p>
<p>Xanatos, if one were to rate the top 10 Econ programs that do not have Graduate level offerings, Dartmouth would surely make the list. But I think they were discussing Econ programs that have doctoral offerings.</p>
<p>It is not your mistake. Top non-PhD granting institutions should be listed too. I am going to list the top 15 Econ program based on where I have seen top graduate Econ department adcoms, Investment Banks, Management Consulting firms and government agencies recruit the most:</p>
<p>TOP 15 NON-PhD GRANTING ECONOMICS PROGRAMS:
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
College of William and Mary
Dartmouth College
Haverford College
Middlebury
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>TOP 15 PhD GRANTING ECON PROGRAMS:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>gellino.. wat sense did that make ? mich's econ major is one of best in the country.. it would come under the top 15 schools for econ in any list on any site.. looks like your a reject from minn, wisc, mich :p</p>