<p>What are good ones?
UChicago
Northwestern</p>
<p>I can't really think of others. I'm not sure. Is Stern good for economics?</p>
<p>i think the big 5 are:
MIT
Princeton
Harvard
U chicago
Stanford
(in no particular order, it depends on the field in econ you're interested in)</p>
<p>NYU has some solid econ profs, I think one at Stern just won a Nobel. I learned a lot in international and urban economics. I believe Stern and CAS share the dept.</p>
<p>Hmm, thanks a lot! I may want to pursue something like Economics but I also wanted to have the option of International Business and Finance, and other business majors available to me. So thats why Im really interested in Stern because it can offer me many things, in case I don't like one specific major like economics. </p>
<p>I may apply to Uchicago..but Im not sure if it has any other business majors.</p>
<p>"I may want to pursue something like Economics but I also wanted to have the option of International Business and Finance, and other business majors available to me. "</p>
<p>The IB major is kind of useless, to be honest.The classes in the major are just finance and marketing courses, like international finance and international marketing. a finance/econ degreee would be very good, especially for graduate school.</p>
<p>Did no one mention Berkeley? It's one of the departments with many Nobel laureates. There is a business school (supposedly one of the best undergrad), and an international relations major, but I'm not sure about Int Business.</p>
<p>As much as Chicago and the like own Econ, as an Undergrad, a liberal arts college might be a smart consideration.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>GROUP I:
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II:
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>GROUP IV:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Rochester</p>
<p>Among the LACs, you have several excellent programs too:
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colgate University
Dartmouth College (I know, I know, Dartmouth is not a LAC, but its Econ does not give out graduate degrees)
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>you're hilarious.</p>
<p>^ Lol, why hilarious?</p>
<p>Thanks Alexandre- that really helps me out a lot too :D</p>
<p>because instead of providing objective, helpful information, he compiles some list that he decides are the best schools of economics. Trust me, no one cares if your school is 'ranked' #3 or # 13.</p>
<p>Which is why he groups them rather than ranking them...</p>
<p>Every time you ***** at Alexandre is just because you're mad at where he puts NYU.</p>
<p>No I really don't care what he ranks NYU. I've been out of college for a while now. I already know how good NYU is because I went there and took economics courses there with professors there.
I think it's detrimental for people here who read it to base decisions on this instead of on objective information.</p>
<p>And what would this "objective" information be?</p>
<p>real observable information as opposed to a set of ranking lists.
I know it seems far fetched</p>
<p>xo akhila ox, there is almost no difference in quality between the top 20 or so programs at the undergraduate level. You really should look into the university as a whole.</p>
<p>NYUstern, my groupings are not random. I spent 4 years studying economics as a undergraduate student and was admitted into a couple of decent PhD programs (though I ultimately decided to go into IBanking rather than academe). I have spoken to several Econ professors about the various Econ programs and have seen several rankings of Econ programs over the years. Now I agree with you that any of the topp programs will be excellent and that there is very little difference between #3 and #13, but that does not mean that all top programs are equal. MIT or Chicago are slightly but measurably better than Columbia or Michigan. Northwestern and Cal and slightly but measurably better than Brown or Carnegie Mellon etc...</p>
<p>univ of rochester + ibanking, any chance alexandre? The thing is here you rank U of R business pretty high...but the prestige of the university isnt as great as some of those on the list.
do you think univ of rochester will be successful for ibanking? thanks</p>
<p>I am sure Rochester attracts Wall Street's attention. I am not sure Simon offers degrees to undergrads though. I think the closest thing to a Business degree one can get as un undergraduate student at Rochester is Economics, which is amazing.</p>
<p>Well thanks guys, Im actually planning on applying to Stern early decision and I was wondering if their economics program good or at least decent, and since you say all the top 20 are good enough, that satisfies me. The thing is, I dont want to go into just a liberal arts school because I want to do business as a whole, but I also wanted the school I go to to be good in economics. So I think Stern is a good choice for me! I'll have good options available in economics, finance, etc, whatever I choose to do.</p>
<p>'real observable data' is not a good counterargument to rankings. although rankings obviously aren't everything alexandre did say that there difference between the top 20 or so programs isn't going to be all that different. "You can't judge, you weren't there" just isn't a very good argument ever.</p>