<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in Economics](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html)</p>
<p>Also Purdue has a very good communications dept. </p>
<p>I would opt for Purdue.</p>