<p>Can someone please show me the rankings for the highest ranking undergraduate economics programs? I can't seem to find any rankings for undergrad.</p>
<p>Great question. I'm wondering about Harvard vs. Yale, specficially for Econ..</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Among research universities:</p>
<p>GROUP I:
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II:
Columbia University
Northwestern University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
New York University
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia</p>
<p>Excellent LAC Economics programs:
Amherst College
Barnard College (Women's college)
Bowdoin College
Claremont McKenna College (#1 among LACs in Economics)
Colgate College
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>But.....source?</p>
<p>There is no source. Undergraduate programs are not ranked. The list above is a consensus opinion of Econ professors around the nation.</p>
<p>What determines the "group" of each college?</p>
<p>Where would Dartmouth stand?</p>
<p>Every school pretty much has an econ department in the college of arts and science, so it's difficult to rank, unlike business and engineering. However, you can assume that a top school has a good econ department. And remember that econ is a liberal arts major, so logically, a good LAC or an ivy like Dartmouth should be great for econ.</p>
<p>I wonder how the "Groups" of Undergrad Econ are classified...
By regions or else?
Thank you!</p>
<p>I attend UC Berkeley as a business major and if you are going to go to Berkeley, you are better off majoring in Business (Haas), than Econ...just my personal opinion.</p>
<p>what about Wellesley for economics?</p>
<p>Don;t chose an undergrad school for “econ” rank - it makes no difference to employers or grad school. The overall rank of the school is significantly more important. For example, Chicago, with a great graduate econ dept. doesn’t do as well as its peers at finance recruiting, while a top LAC like Williams does much better with NO RANK for its grad econ dept because it doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>So Slipper1234, going to Brown would essentially be better than NYU for Economics because Brown is better as an overall university? ( I am still wondering if I should transfer from NYU to Brown…)</p>
<p>Yeah exactly. For getting into grad school and for getting a top job. Not even close.</p>
<p>what do you mean “not even close?”</p>
<p>I mean Brown is much better than NYU CAS.</p>
<p>Just wondering if someone can rank these economics programs/ tell me something about them. Thanks </p>
<p>maryland
indiana
purdue
michigan state
miami ohio
pittsburgh
minnesota</p>
<p>Minnesota’s Econ department is stellar (top 15 nationally). Maryland’s Econ department is also good.</p>
<p>thanks, thats great.</p>
<p>how are they in terms of job placement and recruitment?</p>