<p>What schools have good undergrad economics programs? Can someone list more than just the top elite schools?</p>
<p>U chicago has an amazing program
Harvard
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>All you need is Upenn baby</p>
<p>"Can someone list more than just the top elite schools?"</p>
<p>I think Harvard and Princeton are still top schools :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^oh, sorry didn't read that part...oops</p>
<p>Alexandre has posted this several times.</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>Thanks AlanArch.</p>
<p>Alan's tier-grouping is fairly accurate.</p>
<p>I don't know what those rankings are supposed to be based on, but some of the distinctions in tiers seem completely wrong to me. Ones that particularly stand out to me are: 1)There's no reason to separate Yale as lower than Princeton and to put Yale and Northwestern on the same plain. 2)While maybe the best students at UMich and UCLA are getting the same job and grad school opps (in amount, not %), there's no way that the avg econ student at UMich or UCLA will have as many respected opps as those from Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Duke. 3)Georgetwon and BC have way more of a funnel into top IB and consulting jobs than any of the schools in their supposed tier, tier 6 and most of tier 5 from what I've seen from friends working at these companies. 4) Unless there's something very specific I don't know about the econ dept at Denison, there's no way it should be on that list before, at least, W&L, Bowdoin, Bates, Davidson, Bucknell, Lafayette, Trinity, Conn College, Holy Cross, Union.</p>
<p>So, is this an education ranking or a job prospect ranking? I think it's about the educational opportunities. Not everyone is interested in dedicating their life to Ibanking or consulting jobs that require 100 hours a week. Those firms recruit as much by tradition as anything else with a heavy northeast bias. Where they choose to recruit does not say much about the quality of education.</p>
<p>Duke, UChicago, also schools with strong alumni networks-Amherst, Davidson, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, and Colgate.</p>
<p>Is Johns Hopkins economics really that good? (as good as NYU, Texas, and Virginia?)</p>
<p>JHU, in general, is a better school (student academic quality-wise) than those three, but don't have as much of a funnel into business-type jobs out of undergrad as those schools do.</p>
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So, is this an education ranking or a job prospect ranking?
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For the tier ranking - neither. It looks like it's based more on academic research.</p>
<p>Actually that was a rhetorical comment. I assumed the question was in regard to academics.</p>
<p>What schools have a good funnel into business-type jobs out of undergrad, besides the obvious elite schools?</p>
<p>Baruch is good at preparing kids for good job.s</p>
<p>How about schools with good funnels into i-banking and such?</p>
<p>I heard Dartmouth had a really good Econ program, but it's not on Alexandre's list</p>
<p>yea Dart should be on there.</p>