<p>Wondering which Ivies have the best economics programs. Feel free to add in other top tier schools that aren't Ivies in your rankings.</p>
<p>Any reputable school has an excellent econ program, its the most popular major at all or most of the ivies.</p>
<p>Why limit yourself to Ivies? I may be biased, but I don’t think it matters: look up the University of Chicago. They’re famous for their economics program.</p>
<p>“Why limit yourself to Ivies? I may be biased, but I don’t think it matters: look up the University of Chicago. They’re famous for their economics program.” I’m sorry, but I hate when people come in and change the topic of the thread. The OP asked for Ivies, if you want to do every school, start your own thread.</p>
<p>As for me, I don’t know enough to rank them. [Bump!]</p>
<p>lol bjomounts, bugaboo said be free to add other top tier schools.</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Chicago
MIT
Stanford</p>
<p>Yale
Berkeley
Michigan
Northwestern
Columbia</p>
<p>Cornell
NYU
Maryland
Minnesota
Wisconsin
UCLA
UCSD
UT-Austin</p>
<p>^You forgot Penn which would probably belong to the second group.</p>
<p>I’d definitely put Penn in that first group and move Chicago down to the second group.</p>
<p>Penn would be second group, Wharton is business, not econ as a whole like Chicago.</p>
<p>huh? MIT is good at econs?
I’ve never heard of that</p>
<p>Levi’s list is good. Group I is 100% spot on. I would make a few changes though. For example:</p>
<p>Group II is missing Penn and Michigan (and possibly Columbia) should probably be knocked down to group III. </p>
<p>Group III is missing Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Duke and Johns Hopkins. </p>
<p>Yes hbrad8002, MIT is as good as Chicago and Harvard in Econ.</p>
<p>Oh sorry wisteriawings, missed that part of the OP’s original post.</p>
<p>Thanks. Was a bit surprised at some of the group 3 schools though. Maryland, Minnesota, and Wisconsin are that great in econ?</p>
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<p>Based on what criteria?
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The University of Chicago department, widely considered one of the world’s foremost economics departments, has fielded more Nobel Prize winners and John Bates Clark medalists in economics than any other university.<a href=“%5Burl%5Dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_(economics%5B/url%5D)”>/quote</a></p>
<p>According to the NRC-95 rankings (as far as I know, the last major peer assessment of its kind), Chicago was tied for 1st with Harvard. MIT was #3 and UPenn #8 in that ranking.</p>
<p>But Lurker’s point probably is true, just about any top university or LAC is likely to offer a decent undergraduate program in economics.</p>
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Penn’s economics department is in its School of Arts and Sciences, not Wharton, and Wharton’s presence on campus is merely additive to–and not subtractive from–the economics department’s bona fides as a full-fledged, top-10 liberal arts department. That said, you’re correct that it belongs in your second group (in the 6-10 range).</p>
<p>Penn econ is strongly top 10. Not one of the tippy top schools like Harvard or MIT, but still very strong. Most people seem to forget that it has an economcis department though. Strange that the problem doesn’t happen at other schools that are top 10 in business and econ like Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, and Stanford.</p>
<p>Alexandre: You once put Dartmouth into a category of excellent LACs for economics - can you fit it into the context of the original question do you feel that any school without a doctorate progam in the field is not quantifiable? (I suspect the original poster is really in undergraduate progams.)</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Chicago
Princeton
Berkeley
Stanford
Yale
Northwestern
Penn
Columbia
NYU
Michigan</p>
<p>Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Stanford
Chicago
Columbia
Dartmouth
NorthWestern
U Virgina
Duke
Berkley
U Texas
Cornell
Indiana U
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Yale
Brown</p>
<p>OHmadre, in Econ, Dartmouth is as good as group III programs (Brown, Cornell, Duke etc…).</p>