<p>Any thoughts as to pros and cons between these programs? Any recent rankings?</p>
<p>Here are graduate department rankings:
[Rankings</a> - Economics - Graduate Schools - Education - US News](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-economics-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-economics-schools/rankings)</p>
<p>USNWR and other major rankings don’t cover undergraduate programs on a department-by-department basis (except for engineering and a few other specialties often organized into “schools”).</p>
<p>Most people would tell you that Princeton has a top economcis program, maybe even top 1by most measure, but I’d take Yale for undergrad and Princeton for postgrad.</p>
<p>Even though they both have their pros and cons, they both have excellent economics programs</p>
<p>Graduate rankings can give you a sense of undergrad strengths. Princeton has the more reputed economics program generally speaking (and is possibly the top program period). That said, even with correlation between undergrad and grad program strengths, I think you’ll find that on the undergrad level these things don’t matter quite as much, especially when you’re comparing two top schools as it is. Go with the one that matches your non-academic criteria.</p>
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The differences between them are not likely to be found in graduate rankings.</p>
<p>Princeton requires all students to complete a thesis and does not permit double majors, for example, neither of which is true at Yale.</p>
<p>Apply to both and they just might make your choice for you.</p>