<p>I have searched some myself, but I would appreciate any input.</p>
<p>Strong Philosophy and Economics departments.</p>
<p>Near or in a large city.</p>
<p>4,000+ undergrad student body.</p>
<p>Preferably in Northeast, but anywhere North of Virginia and West of Ohio is fine too.</p>
<p>Obviously NYU, the Ivies...anywhere else?</p>
<p>MIT - top economics, excellent philosophy as well, obviously very hard to get in to</p>
<p>University of Chicago</p>
<p>How are the philosophy and economics programs at BU, GW, and American?</p>
<p>I wouldnt worry about how good the "programs" are at this level. If you go to any Ivy or comparable it will be the institutional quality that will get you into grad school. I am in grad school at Columbia and I know this to be true. Go where you like if its a top school. GW, BU, and American are not top ranked, so in that case looking into program quality could be useful. How selective of a school are you looking for?</p>
<p>A small list: </p>
<p>Schools that are top 10 in Economics and Philosophy:
Columbia University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Schools that are top 10 in Economics and top 40, but not top 10 in Philosophy:
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>Schools that are top 10 in Philosophy and top 40, but not top 10 in Economics:
Cornell University
New York University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Schools that are top 40 in both but not top 10 in either:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Duke University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University
Rice University
University of California-San Diego
University of Virginia
Washington University</p>
<p>There is obviously a big difference between #11 and #40 and yet, I lump all the schools that fall into that category together. However, if a program is around the top 10 (#12 or #14), I will incoluded among the top 10. So the "top 40 but not top 10" schools above are not ranked anywhere near the top 10. </p>
<p>I realize there's like 25 universities above...but it is a good start. Keep in mind that at the undergraduate level, I would focus more on the quality of the school as a whole (and how well you fit in it) than on the quality of the individual department(s). Keep in mind that all the schools listed above are awesome...so you cannot go wrong no matter what.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks Alexandre, very helpful!</p>
<p>Where are you finding these lists? US News?</p>
<p>Not really...I just made this stuff up! hehe Seriously, I was an Econ major in College, so I know my Econ departments. I got the Philosophy rankings from NRC, Goruman and the Philosophical Gourmet.</p>
<p>Either way, I love you. :D</p>
<p>just look at chicago, obviously famous for economics with the nobel laureates and Milton Friedman and all, and for philosophy. I have a friend from high school who is a junior phil. major there and absolutely loves it. If you're into philosophy, theres no better school or college-campus-culture for it in the world as far as Im concerned</p>
<p>Swarthmore seems like a clear fit.</p>