<p>Who did the ranking? Is it for research or for undergrad?</p>
<p>What about top 50? What kind of ranking is this? Can someone post a link to the entire list?</p>
<p>I am not going to give you a ranking of the top 50 programs because there aren't any for undergraduate institutions. I am going to list 50 programs I think are excellent and group them into peer groups:</p>
<p>PEER GROUP I:
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>PEER GROUP II:
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>PEER GROUP III:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>PEER GROUP IV:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>PEER GROUP V:
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia</p>
<p>Peer Group VI:
Boston University
Brandeis University
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Nortth Carolina-Chapel Hill</p>
<p>PEER GROUP VII:
Boston College
Georgetown University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Michigan State University-East Lansing
Ohio State University-Columbus
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
University of California-Davis
University of Washington
Vanderbilt University
Washington University</p>
<p>LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES:
Amherst College
Carleton College
Claremont Mckenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Dartmouth College
Denison University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>Wow, thanks for taking your time to do this for us.</p>
<p>very nice Alexandre, thanks!</p>
<p>where would you put UCSB?</p>
<p>A nice little article about David Colander at Middlebury...</p>
<p>UCSB would be in group VII or maybe in Group VIII. It is definitely a good Econ department.</p>
<p>The rankings are from research and study done by a large group of economists who write for journals.</p>
<p>Alexendre, your rankings are seriously flawed. I noticed that you grouped them according to what YOU THINK they are, but I would like to know exactly what you have done to come up with those.</p>
<p>By the way, I didn't mean to sound offensive. I appreciate the time you took to write that all out.</p>
<p>I look at the various rankings, factor in availlability or resources, quality of students, ties to industry and the corporate world and I asked 14 professors from different institutions (including Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Northwestern, Penn and Stanford) that I know personally to give me their personal rating of undergraduate econ departments based in the quality of the graduate students they have dealt with over the last 20 years.</p>
<p>And by the way, I do not rank, I group programs.</p>
<p>Curious as to why you "grouped" schools such as NYU and Johns Hopkins into tier V, but if that's what you think, then so be it.</p>
<p>I am not grouping those universities, I am grouping their Econ departments. Group V are top 25 but not top 10 departments. In the case of NYU and JHU, tha't's not a stretch by any means. But if you must know, I have carefully examined both NYU and JHU's Econ departments and found them to be somewhat undergraduate unfriendly. However, it is important to realize that very little separates one group from another. A school can easily belong in the group above or below.</p>
<p>Hi folks, I found the source of the ranking on the first post of this thread. The full ranking of all 200 of the top economics departments is at the following url. It runs from pages 22 to 25 of this pdf: </p>
<p>Those peer groupings seem strange, given the placement several of those names. (with regards to economics departments)</p>
<p>As a side note, I think a lot of the perceived prestige comes from brand names and marketed images rather than actual research. Take Tilburg University for example, which does not advertise much, but has arguably the top economics department in Europe. l'Universit</p>
<p>I've been looking at econ programs for a while now and that list seems accurate to me as well.</p>
<p>I was wondering were you would group McGill, Toronto and LSE in that list?</p>
<p>For one thing, job placement is more about the prestige of the school rather than the prestige of the economics department. The exception is when you get to a PhD level, at which the best economic think tanks prefer PhDs of the best schools based on departmental strength. But on the undergraduate level, I'd say not to worry so much about these rankings. As long as the program is decent, then it's fine.</p>
<p>Aurelius, I agree somewhat with what you say. I think it is a function of both the prestige of the department and the university.</p>
<p>Sebma, I would say LSE belongs to group III and Toronto and McGill to group V.</p>
<p>In the states are people who get a economics degree just as heavily recruited by Ibanks as people who have a business degree? ex. Is a Harvard Econ. equal to a Wharton undergrad? Or a Stern degree equal to Uchicago econ. degree? Over here in Canada economics is a discipline in a business degree but not a whole seperate degree in most cases.</p>
<p>Those rankings are just # of pages published in journals.</p>
<p>Yay! UCLA inside top 20!</p>
<p>Yay NYU in top 10!!!!!</p>