<p>What are some good schools for economics majors?</p>
<p>UChicago!!!</p>
<p>HYPSM Chicago NU UCB Michigan Cornell Columbia Duke UCSD UW-Madison Dartmouth Penn UCLA top LACs and many others</p>
<p>I second UChicago.</p>
<p>London School of Economics, I would assume. :)</p>
<p>Pretty much all top schools have an economics program of some sort. I doubt that the programs are drastically different. An economics major from any top school would do well. HYPSM, UChicago, etc. would be the best.</p>
<p>Since Econ is such a ludicrously popular major, any top national university or LAC would be a good choice.</p>
<p>I second LSE!</p>
<p>It depends on what you want to do after college. For instance, if you want to go into investment banking, it sounds like the selectivity of the college matters a lot more for recruitment than how scholarly its economics faculty are (which is usually what a lot of people refer to when saying which schools are "good" for economics).</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad economics ranking:</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad
MIT
Chicago
Stanford
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
U Minnesota
U Penn
U Wisc Madison
UC Berkeley
Northwestern
U Rochester
Columbia
UCLA
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
Brown
UC San Diego
Duke
Cornell
NYU
UVA
UC Davis
U Washington
U Maryland College Park
Michigan State
UNC Chapel Hill
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Texas A&M
Boston U
Washington U St Louis
Purdue West Lafayette
USC
U Texas Austin
Vanderbilt
Ohio State
Iowa State
SUNY Stony Brook
U Iowa
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara
U Pittsburgh
Virginia Tech
Claremont McKenna
Rutgers New Brunswick </p>
<p>Rugg's Recommendations economics</p>
<p>American U. (DC) …….
Amherst (MA) …..
Babson (MA) …..
Barnard (NY) ……
Bates (ME) ……..
Boston University (MA) ….
Bowdoin (ME) …….
Brandeis (MA) ……_
Bryn Mawr (PA) …..,
Bucknell (PA) ……..
California, U. of (Los Angeles) ….,
California, U. of (San Diego) ….,
Chicago, U. of (ll) …….
Claremont McKenna (CA)….
Colby (ME) ……..
Columbia (NY) …
Connecticut College…..
Cornell (NY) ……….
Dallas, U. of (TX) …….,
Dartmouth (NH) …
DePauw (IN) …,….,
Duke (NC) ……..
Georgetown (DC) ….
Georgia Inst. Of Tech. ….
Grinnell (IA) ……….
Hamilton (NY) …
Harvard (MA) ….
Haverford (PA) ……
Holy Cross (MA) …….
Kalamazoo (MI) ..,
Kenyon (OH) …….
Lafayette (PA) …….
Macalester (MN) …..,
Michigan, U. of ‘”
MIT (MA) ……….
Middlebury (Vf) ……
Mount Holyoke (MA) ….
Northwestern (IL) …
Occidental (CA) ……,
Pennsylvania, U. of ……
Pomona (CA) ……….
Princeton (NJ) …..,
Rhodes (TN) …….._
Rochester, U. of (NY) .
Rose-Hulman (IN) …..,..,
Smith (Mass)….. </p>
<p>St. Mary’s Coll of Maryland…..
St. Olaf (MN) …..,……
South, U. of the (TN) ….,
Southwestern (TX) …
Stanford (CA) ……
Swarthmore (PA) .
Trinity (CT) ……
Trinity (TX) ….
Vanderbilt (TN)..
Villanova (PA) …
Virginia, U. of …._
Wabash (IN) …..
Wake Forest (NC) …..
Washington & Lee (VA) ….
Wellesley (MA) …….
Wesleyan (CT) ….,.
Whitman (WA) ..
Willamette (OR) ……..
Williams (MA) ……
Yale (CT) ……….</p>
<p>What do you want to do as an econ major is far more important that departmental ranks that often mean nothing at the undergrad level.</p>
<p>In the US: Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Chicago, Princeton and Yale</p>
<p>In the UK: Camrbridge, Oxford, LSE and Warwick</p>
<p>USN graduate ranking:
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Distance Enter your zip Score 5.0<br>
1 University of Chicago Chicago, IL Distance Enter your zip Score 5.0<br>
3 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
3 Princeton University Princeton, NJ Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
3 Stanford University Stanford, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
3 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
7 Yale University New Haven, CT Distance Enter your zip Score 4.8<br>
8 Northwestern University Evanston, IL Distance Enter your zip Score 4.6<br>
9 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.5<br>
10 University of California--San Diego La Jolla, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.3
11 Columbia University New York, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
11 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
11 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
11 University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
15 New York University New York, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 4.1</p>
<p>Those Gourman Report rankings are exactly what I'm talking about. For instance, U of Minnesota is ranked 7th, whereas Wash U is ranked 32nd, but I can promise you that the Wash U kids are getting recruited much more aggressively. </p>
<p>And once again, the problem with using the graduate school rankings is that they only take into account the selectivity of the graduate program. There are plenty of very selective schools that simply don't have a very selective graduate economics program, which obviously shouldn't affect the way you think about their undergraduate program in any way.</p>
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And once again, the problem with using the graduate school rankings is that they only take into account the selectivity of the graduate program. There are plenty of very selective schools that simply don't have a very selective graduate economics program, which obviously shouldn't affect the way you think about their undergraduate program in any way.
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<p>Actually, no. The graduate rankings have nothing to do with selectivity. They have everything to do with educational and research quality. </p>
<p>For instance, UChicago is known to be a relatively easy program to get into. Much easier than Harvard or MIT or Berkeley. But that doesn't change the perceived quality of the graduate program at Chicago.</p>
<p>But graduate based econ ranks mean nothing at the undergrad level. Dartmouth ,for example, is one of the best schools for high finance recruiting and graduate placement, yet it doesn't even have a graduate econ dept!</p>
<p>^what about for an advanced student who is interested in taking graduate level economics classes his junior and senior years? would it be better to strongly look into schools with graduate econ departments for the option to take graduate classes and/or to have a wider array of classes to choose from?</p>
<p>"hign finance recruiting" look for smart people in any major and dartmouth has many of those. but not everyone wants to do investment banking. i guess what i am trying to say is this:
A. if you want to have solid education in econ, the graduate ranking is a good list to start.<br>
B. if you want superb "high finance recruting" alone, just go to the top selective colleges without worrying about where its econ is ranked and you don't even need to major in econ.
C. if you want the best of both worlds, go to the ones that are top colleges AND highly ranked in econ (this answers Venkat89's question)</p>
<p>Slipper -- </p>
<p>I actually think graduate ranking does matter at the undergraduate level for the motivated student who wants to immerse herself in the field and all that it can offer.</p>
<p>Compare Cornell and Dartmouth, for a second. Cornell offers 70 undergraduate courses in economics. Dartmouth offers 30. </p>
<p>Courses</a> for Dartmouth Economics Department
Courses</a> of Study 2007-2008: College of Arts and Sciences</p>
<p>Want to take courses in public finance and go into government work? Dartmouth offers one course in public economics. Cornell offers six.</p>
<p>Additionally, Cornell offers an additional 60 courses at the graduate-level, and in many of these first-year graduate courses you will be able to find ambitious upperclassmen as well. </p>
<p>Oh, and then there are 70 additional actual business and finance courses as well at Cornell:</p>
<p>Courses</a> of Study 2007-2008: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences</p>
<p>You may say that this doesn't matter, as Dartmouth offers better placement into "high finance" (a claim that you would never actually be able to actually provide hard facts for). But as Sam points out, it doesn't really matter what you major in to go into high finance, you just need to prove yourself to be clever and willing to work yourself to the bone.</p>
<p>The funny thing is that Cornell economics isn't even all that good. It's somewhere around the 10th-20th best department in the country. It's no Chicago or Harvard or Berkeley.</p>
<p>So at the end of the day, for a student who is interested in exploring the field of economics, where might they be better off going? An established department with international prowess and a great breadth in course offerings or something much more similar to a liberal arts college with limited course offerings?</p>
<p>Cayuga, quality, not quantity.</p>