<p>Alexandre on your rankings, in the liberal arts section, you missed Bates because their econ program is generally ranked in the top 10 in LAC econ.</p>
<p>Apparently Wesleyan is #1 in LAC econ, but I saw that from their viewbook so I don't trust them.</p>
<p>oh yeah I forgot about Wesleyan...my bad</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?"</p>
<p>Economics is a very different field from business. </p>
<p>"Over here in Canada economics is a discipline in a business degree but not a whole seperate degree in most cases."</p>
<p>That is false. I'm from Canada, and yes, economics IS a separate discipline in most cases.</p>
<p>How does the Bates Economics dept. rank with the other LACs?</p>
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<p>Yes. (10 characters)</p>
<p>Definitely, when it comes to Econ and Ibank recruitment, prestiege is everything, but that is the same with undergrad business.</p>
<p>"Good research does not necessarily mean good teaching."</p>
<p>That's true. But for many, it's an important part of their undergraduate education. And for those who plan on getting a PhD, it's damned near crucial. And I think the rankings are intended to evaluate grad programs, anyway. </p>
<p>Also, some people just dig it. Like me. I've learned alot through being involved with faculty members' research. </p>
<p>I would have thought LSE would have clocked in much higher, though. It's 12th in the world for poli sci.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if anyone can direct me to good grad programs in development economics/development studies. I know UCI, Columbia, and Sussex are good. Any others?</p>
<p>That ranking that you post is silly. It is not a ranking of econ departments but ranking by uni affiliation. This paper itself will not get published anywhere because it suffers from a simple omitted variable bias that any respectable economics journal will realize by page 2. Not to mention that it is not controlling for all sorts of institutional variables. Finally, research is not everything for institutional quality. (thinks LACs).</p>
<p>Here's another website. It also ranks by speciality.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.econphd.net/rankings.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.econphd.net/rankings.htm</a></p>
<p>owu, are you talking about the op? I just know those are the ones my prof mentioned to me. But my school only has one course in devlt, and it's not great. I just know I like it. Similarly, research is something I enjoy; and it's something I've missed as part of my current education. So while it's not necessarily an indicator of institutional quality, it's a characteristic I know I seek.</p>
<p>dyip10, thank you for those rankings.</p>
<p>owugenius, if you don't mind my asking, how did you prepare for grad school? Once again, though I hope to transfer, my current institution offers few resources in preparing people for graduate programs in econ anything. It is largely geared towards finance, accounting, and other more vocational tracks rather than PhD style study.</p>
<p>"That ranking that you post is silly. It is not a ranking of econ departments but ranking by uni affiliation. This paper itself will not get published anywhere because it suffers from a simple omitted variable bias that any respectable economics journal will realize by page 2. Not to mention that it is not controlling for all sorts of institutional variables. Finally, research is not everything for institutional quality. (thinks LACs)."</p>
<p>It did get published you idiot. That's how I found it. If you even took the time to read the last line of my post I asked how accurate do you think they are, I didn't post them as definite rankings. It's hard to believe that you got into a grad school.</p>
<p>The "genius" at the end of your name doen't suit you at all.</p>
<p>pip-pip, i went to a liberal arts college as you might guess from my screenname, ohio wesleyan university. </p>
<p>if you want to do a phd in economics, don't worry that your school is geared towards finance, accounting, and other more vocational tracks. all that matters for admission to a the phd program in economics is your performance in several key math classes: real analysis, optimization theory, linear algebra, diff equations and of course all the calc ones. some topology, dynamic optimization will be helpful but not as much. </p>
<p>so more important to the undergrad program in economics is the undergrad training in math.</p>
<p>FBI<em>34, by published i meant published in a peer-reviewed journal, not posted somewhere online. do you mind telling me the _peer-reviewed</em> journal that you said "you found it in"? i tried yesterday and i tried today...and i couldn't see it in any of the economics peer-reviewed journals. a website or a working paper is not peer-reviewed as you might guess, nor a publication of an association for that matter. </p>
<p>and i don't know what do you mean by accurate? you need to define that term. in statistics, i am aware of consistent, unbiased and inefficient estimates. unbiased and consistent they are not (which i already mentioned why). but accurate as a term in statistics i haven't heard before.</p>
<p>you are lucky i am magnanimous so i skipped several words in your previous message.</p>
<p>Optimization theory? Are there any other terms for that? My school doesn't seem to offer it.</p>
<p>no pip-pip: there is no other term for it, it covers various lagrange sufficiency & necessity theorems, some for local, some for global maxima. and of course, kuhn-tucker optimization theorems to account for corner solutions. this is probably the one course that will be helpful in econ grad school from day 1. if your school doesn't have it, perhaps you can do an independent study?</p>
<p>If I don't get in to any of my transfer schools, I'll see if I can just take it at a neighboring university as a visiting student. Thanks.</p>
<p>I am so sorry for getting off topic, but I need to know which is the correct expression: get into college or get in to college ? (I am not a native English speaker, so you can stop laughing).</p>