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<p>Useless statistic. Depends too much on the popularity of the econ major and the opportunities after graduation (there will be fewer that don’t involve grad school at a LAC)</p>
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<p>Excellent list. University of British Columbia should be in this group though.</p>
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Perhaps it’s useful to those who wish to find an environment of like-minded students.</p>
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<p>Where is your school (WUSTL) ranked for economics? Is it ranked?</p>
<p>haha I apologize for putting Duke, I’ll tell you why I put it. I saw some study the Duke behavioral econ department did about cheating in golf and I am play golf, so I found it interesting, and from this found out they had a respectable econ department in grad rankings, 19 in USNews, which obviously has nothing to do with undergrad.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, I just wanted to give this thread some attention, which I achieved that end I supppose :)</p>
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<p>I only know the graduate school is ranked ~30th by USNWR, although I haven’t seen any numbers on the undergraduate program. If you prefer another ranking system to the USNWR for any reason, I’m sure you can find those numbers if you’re interested ;)</p>
<p>Economics departments tend to be among the largest at most universities. It’s one of the most popular majors almost anywhere you go. It’s one of the most popular undergraduate majors for students in MBA programs as well as law school.</p>
<p>My guess is that nearly any university’s overall reputation is a fairly good proxy for the reputation of its econ department. To the etent one school is ranked another says little about the magnitude of difference between department quality. The drop-off between number one and number twenty-five is more likely to be negligible in a big department than it is in, say, Sanskrit.</p>
<p>A former boss of mine took a few Econ courses as an undergraduate at Berkeley. Two of his professors went on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Not bad for what some people are rating as a “group two” school here.</p>
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<p>This implies that Duke does not deserve its “top 10” reputation.</p>
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<p>Duke has a top 10 reputation?</p>
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<p>Well, according to Duke students and alumni…</p>
<p>for undergrad, here’s my list:</p>
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MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Yale
Berkeley
Northwestern
Columbia
UPenn
the rest of the ivies + Duke, Rice, WUSL</p>
<p>^ pretty much agree.</p>
<p>I don’t have the statistics to say much about Duke’s individual departments, but it definitely is a well-respected school even outside of it’s alum and students, as any number of rankings will testify. </p>
<p>Is the OP still around? I feel like answering “What schools are good for _____ ?” threads would be more helpful to the OP if he/she had other criteria too, e.g. region, caliber, student body, and so on. Because otherwise the answer just tends to be HYPSM… :/</p>
<p>Are there outcome data to support such opinions, or are they based on common assumptions?</p>
<p>lol, well when it comes right down to it they’re either based directly from more/less objective rankings, or based on opinions derived from rumors which may or may not have originated with some ranking or other. this is, after all, the internet. </p>
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<p>“more/less objective rankings”</p>
<p>A ranking by, e.g., GRE scores would be objective, but then we’d argue about relevance. USNWR, e.g., is subjective (magazine editors’ opinions about relevance) even though it includes some objective constituent components.</p>