Stanford economics....Meh?

undisclosed · March 13, 2008, 5:51pm

It seems to me that while it is a very good program, at a very good school, Stanford's economics department is sort of...run-of-the-mill. When researching Yale's or Chicago's I was able to find very distinct offerings in terms of courses, programs, and other opportunities. However....I have not been able to do so for Stanford. Like I said, it's all good but nothing stands out.

I know I'm probably wrong, so I'm welcoming any opportunity to be proven wrong. :)

Sheed30 · March 13, 2008, 9:04pm

I would also love to know how Stanford Economics stand with the rest of the economic world.

nngmm · March 13, 2008, 10:49pm

From what I've heard, it is very "math heavy", and has very good reputation.

lmanuelli · March 14, 2008, 5:01pm

My father is an econ professor (used to teach at Stanford) and says that it is one of the top 3 or 4 in the country.

datalook · March 14, 2008, 11:33pm

Stanford economics department is one of the traditional top 5 programs, along with Chicago, Harvard, MIT, and Princeton. The Ph.d. Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business also offers economics related study. In recent years, these programs might have the best placement record in the whole world, which perhaps can only be matched by Harvard and Northwestern university. If you graduate from Stanford GSB with a ph.d., you are almost guaranteed to be a professor at a top university in econmoics or in a school of business, if you want to be a professor.

See the following links:
Economic</a> Analysis and Policy: PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Accounting:</a> PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Finance:</a> PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Operations</a>, Information, and Technology: PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Organizational</a> Behavior: PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Political</a> Economics: PhD Program: Stanford GSB

Example: Economic Analysis and Policy
Academic Placements

From 1978 through 2007 the Stanford Business School Economics and Decision Sciences program, graduated just over 70 students - about equal to the combined output of the Harvard and MIT economics PhD programs in a single year. Within that small group we have produced a large number of outstanding economists, giving us the best average placement rate by far of any economics PhD program.

Michael Grubb , '07
MIT Sloan School of Management
"Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory "

Qingmin Liu , '07
University of Pennsylvania, Economics Department
"Essays on Reputation and Formulation of Incomplete Information"

Peter Lorentzen , '07
UC Berkeley, Political Science Department
"Essays on Institutions and Development "

Ron Siegel , '07
Northwestern University, Economics Department
"All-Pay Contests "

Larry Chavis, '06
University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flager Business School
"Three Essays in Applied Economics"

Benjamin Ho, '06
Cornell University, Johnson School of Management
"Economics of Apologies: Theory, Experiment and Application"

Richard Saouma, '06
University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management
"Essays in Organizational Design and Control"

Alexei Tchistyi, '05
New York University
"A Theoretical Study of Performance-Sensitive Debt"

Kaya Ayca, '05
The University of Iowa
"Essays on Games with Asymmetric Information"

William Fuchs, '05
The University of Chicago
"Dynamic Contracts"

David Ahn, '04
University of California, Berkeley - Economics Department
"Ambiguity Without A State Space"

Simon Board, '04
University of Toronto -Economics Department
"On MarketPower"

Korok Ray, '04
University of Chicago
"Essays in Performance Evaluation"

Yuily Sannikov, '04
University of California, Berkeley - Economics Department
"Dynamic Incentive Problems with Imperfect Information: A Continuous-Time Approach"

Among our better known graduates who are now senior faculty are Susan Athey (Harvard Economics), Paul Milgrom (Stanford Economics), Robert Gibbons and Bengt Holmstrom (MIT), Christopher Avery (Harvard), Andrew Atkeson (UCLA), Dennis Yao Harvard Business School), Matthew Jackson (Stanford Economics), Kathleen Hagerty (Kellogg), Margaret Meyer and Paul Klemperer (Oxford), Peter Cramton (University of Maryland), Sushil Bikhchandani (UCLA), Joel Watson (UC San Diego), and Garth Saloner (Stanford Business School

datalook · March 14, 2008, 11:39pm

Stanford economics department is one of the traditional top 5 programs, along with Chicago, Harvard, MIT, and Princeton. The Ph.d. Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business also offers economics related study. In recent years, these programs might have the best placement record in the whole world, which perhaps can only be matched by Harvard and Northwestern university. If you graduate from Stanford GSB with a ph.d., you are almost guaranteed to be a professor at a top university in econmoics or in a school of business, if you want to be a professor.

See the following link:
Economic</a> Analysis and Policy: PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Accounting:</a> PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Finance:</a> PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Operations</a>, Information, and Technology: PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Organizational</a> Behavior: PhD Program: Stanford GSB
Political</a> Economics: PhD Program: Stanford GSB