Ivies in order of impressiveness

College Search & Selection
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<p>Actually, Chicago is up there with harvard, Princeton and MIT in economics</p>

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<p>@JamieBrown, what are you basing that on?</p>

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<p>chicago and probably mit. chicago has done more to shape modern economic theory than all other schools combined.</p>

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<p>USNWR</p>

<ol>
<li>Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Chicago</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>UC Berkeley, Yale</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia, UMinnesota</li>
</ol>

<p>NRC</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Wyoming</li>
</ol>

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<p>Wow! Wyoming above Columbia, Northwestern and Yale in Economics? I knew there was something wrong with the NRC rankings!!!</p>

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<p>Specifically looking at business and econ, I don’t think Cornell should be placed as #8 out of the ivy league…Cornell AEM is a prestigious and selective program that is ranked in the top 5 for undergrad business by bloomberg businessweek</p>

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<p>

Most of the NRC rankings seem slightly off in the fields with which I’m familiar, but the regression-based scores seem a bit more accurate. For econ:</p>

<p>1-2 Harvard University Economics<br>
1-3 University of Chicago Economics
2-5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics
2-11 Harvard University Business Economics<br>
3-8 University of California-Berkeley Economics
4-11 Princeton University Economics<br>
5-14 New York University Economics<br>
6-13 Stanford University Economics<br>
5-17 Stanford University Economic Analysis and Policy<br>
**6-15 Yale University Economics **
5-18 University of Maryland-College Park Economics<br>
7-18 University of Pennsylvania Economics<br>
8-17 University of Wisconsin-Madison Economics<br>
10-17 Northwestern University Economics<br>
8-19 Columbia University in the City of New York Economics
5-42 Harvard University Political Economy and Government
**14-24 Brown University Economics **
14-25 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Economics<br>
13-25 University of California-Los Angeles Economics<br>
16-26 California Institute of Technology Social Science<br>
14-27 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Economics<br>
17-26 Washington University in St Louis Economics
19-29 Cornell University Economics</p>

<p>(56-93 University of Wyoming Economics)</p>

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<p>Anyone know which schools have graduates with the highest salaries?</p>

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<p>The NRC rankings use a much better methodology than the U.S. News rankings, and besides, they are for doctorate programs anyway. They are not interested in ranking undergraduate programs. That’s why they often do not look like what people expect them to look like, and often rank public institutions higher than the name-recognition magnets people think of first.</p>

<p>The economics rankings for 2010 are here: [Economics</a> Rankings — PhDs.org Graduate School Guide](<a href=“http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/economics]Economics”>http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/economics)</p>

<p>Note that you have to weight certain things in order to get your rankings, which means things will change depending on the ranks you use. I went with the strategy of weighting the NRC’s survey-based measure a 5 and leaving everything else bank.</p>

<p>1-1. Harvard Economics
2-2. MIT Economics
3-6. Harvard Political Economy and Government
3-5. Princeton Economics
4-8. Harvard Business Economics
4-9. Caltech Social Science
6-9. Stanford Economic Analysis and Policy
7-10. Berkeley Economics.</p>

<p>Followed by NYU, Stanford, Penn (econ), Brown, Northwestern, and Yale. Columbia is at #26. Wyoming is ranked 31 on this list. </p>

<p>[Ranking</a> of Economics Graduate Schools — PhDs.org Graduate School Guide](<a href=“http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/economics/rank/__M_____________________________________________________________U]Ranking”>http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/economics/rank/__M_____________________________________________________________U)</p>

<p>But again, these are for doctoral programs. There may be some correlation, but it’s also possible that a focus on graduate economics education can detract from undergrad teaching.</p>