<p>Can anyone tell me some colleges with good undergraduate economics problems?</p>
<p>Duke University</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
UChicago
Yale
Northwestern
Berkeley
UPenn</p>
<p>Top 25 Economics Programs in US:
1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
1 Princeton University Princeton , NJ
1 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
5 Stanford University Stanford, CA
6 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
6 Yale University New Haven, CT
8 Northwestern University Evanston, IL
9 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
10 Columbia University New York, NY
10 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN
12 New York Univ New York, NY
12 Uni of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
14 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
14 Uni of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
14 Uni of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA
14 Uni of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI
18 Cornell Univ Ithaca, NY
19 Brown Univ Providence, RI
19 Carnegie Mellon Univ (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA
19 Duke Univ Durham, NC
22 Uni of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD
22 Uni of Rochester Rochester, NY
24 Boston Univ Boston, MA
25 Johns Hopkins Univ Baltimore, MD
25 Univ of Texas–Austin Austin, TX</p>
<p>Source: US News & World Report 2010</p>
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<p>“Problems” or programs?!?! (Reread the OP’s question.)</p>
<p>i was assuming it was programs, because I didn’t think someone would be asking for “good economic undergraduate problems” oxymoron.</p>
<p>^ Then why did you answer Duke when it’s barely a top 20 program. HYPSM would’ve been a much more immediate and truthful response.</p>
<p>I’m not gonna say the typical ones like Harvard and Chicago cause those have been said to death.</p>
<p>Honestly, at least 90% of CC kids could get into Wisconsin, Minnesota, or BU, probably with a scholarship. Those are great schools and will get you good professor recommendations and possibly some undergraduate research. UCSD is great if you live in California, and very cheap if you do 2 years at a CC first like I’m doing. So yeah, if you know what you want to major in it’s possible to go to a very highly ranked school in the field cheaply and easily.</p>
<p>Economics programs are not greatly differentiated among colleges. There are plenty of colleges with economics programs that will prepare you well for life after college. But what is the endgame? Why do you want econ and are you looking to position yourself for a certain job? Working for the Fed? Going to Wall Street? Doing IR work of some type? Different schools have different networks and these are MUCH more valuable to a student than whether some anonymous academic considers ABC College as a “top” economics program.</p>
<p>Any chance that the list of the top 25 Econ programs quoted by Res Ipsa
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<p>[Rankings</a> - Economics - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-economics-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-economics-schools/rankings)</p>
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<p>and should obviously be quoted as Top Graduate Schools in Economics. There is a world of difference between an undergraduate program in Economics and a graduate program.</p>
<p>Xiggi, there are no undergrad rankings for economics. Don’t you think that being with professors who are on top of their field will be a good experience for an undergrad?</p>
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<p>Are you sure there are no rankings for undergraduate programs in Econ? And, while your rhetorical question should be true in theory, much depends on your definition of “being with.”</p>
<p>Even at large schools, it’s possible to go to office hours and get involved in undergraduate research.</p>
<p>“Then why did you answer Duke when it’s barely a top 20 program. HYPSM would’ve been a much more immediate and truthful response.”</p>
<p>The question was what school has a good econ program. Not everyone has to go to HYPSM. Jesus Christ. Top 20 in the nation is still ridiculous.</p>
<p>From UVa’s Department of Economics</p>
<p>“About one-fourth of the University’s economics majors go to law school after they graduate.” In case you are interested in law school with an Econ degree.</p>
<p>-Tik</p>
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<p>No, the question was what schoolS have good econ programs. While top 20 is indeed still decent, why’d anyone pick only one of the these top 20 (and barely at that) unless s/he were consciously ■■■■■■■■ for that school (Duke)?</p>
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<p>Source: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/137062-best-undergraduate-economics-program.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/137062-best-undergraduate-economics-program.html</a></p>
<p>Here’s yet another way of looking at the problem of programs (or the program of problems):</p>
<p>The undergrad producers of the highest percentages of future econ PhDs (first posted by interesteddad):
Number of PhDs per 1000 grads</p>
<p>Academic field: Economics</p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>
<p>Number of Graduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database</p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000
graduates over the ten year period </p>
<p>1 Swarthmore College 16
2 Grinnell College 7
3 Williams College 7
4 Carleton College 7
5 Harvard University 6
6 Agnes Scott College 6
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5
8 University of Chicago 5
9 Yale University 5
10 California Institute of Technology 5
11 Princeton University 5
12 Macalester College 5
13 Stanford University 4
14 Pomona College 4
15 Oberlin College 4
16 Wellesley College 4
17 Trinity University 4
18 Bowdoin College 3
19 Earlham College 3
20 Berea College 3
21 Amherst College 3
22 Wabash College 3
23 Bard College 3
24 Rocky Mountain College 3
25 Coe College 3
26 Wesleyan University 3
27 College of William and Mary 3
28 Colby College 3
29 Columbia University in the City of New York 3
30 Hillsdale College 3
31 Franklin and Marshall College 3
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<p>for one of several reasons, the OP might not have only been interested in the most ubiquitous answers. I (for one) did not know that Duke had a particularly strong economics program, and if i were applying to an economics school, I’d rather hear suggestions like that than HYPSM, which are reach schools for everyone anyway. my two cents.</p>
<p>“I (for one) did not know that Duke had a particularly strong economics program”`</p>
<p>That’s because it doesn’t. Neither does UVA. I just don’t understand how these two schools are so highly rated. Both seem to come up short in so many areas of academia that a top 10 and 25 school should not be average in.</p>