<p>Maybe some people here who are very familiar with NW can help me out. After Medill for Journalism, which schools or programs are the strongest/most respected at NW, when compared with other top universities nationwide? Thannnks =D</p>
<p>HPME, McCormick School of Engineering, economics</p>
<p>NU theater is a top program.</p>
<ol>
<li>NU's most renowned programs are journalism, theater, and Kellogg-MBA (graduate only).</li>
<li>The school of education and social policy is ranked #6 by US News. </li>
<li>The music school is one of the top non-conservatory programs in the country.</li>
<li>The communication school (performance studies, raido/television/film, theater, communication studies, communication sciences and disorders) is widely considered top 5.</li>
<li>The econ program is top 10 in the nation. NU team has won the College Fed Challenge 2 years in a row and teams they beat include U of Chicago.</li>
<li>The engineering school is strong with most programs ranked in the top-15 (see below).</li>
<li>Other top-10 programs in the nation: art history, material science, industrial engineering & management sciences, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, </li>
<li>Other top-20 programs: applied math, chemistry, english, history, sociology, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering.</li>
<li>Premier research centers: institute for nanotechnology, materials research center</li>
<li>The debate team is the winniest in the nation.</li>
<li>The law/med schools (grad programs though) are ranked 10th/20th by US News.</li>
</ol>
<p>Where can you find rankings of economic programs?</p>
<p>Sam Lee--do those rankings more or less apply to the respective undergrad programs as well?</p>
<p>That's a very good question.</p>
<p>The 2006 US News ranking for graduate program ranks NU econ the 8th. Undergrad rankings are often hard to come by and when they do appear, they don't deviate from the graduate rankings much. For example, the US News has graduate ranking and undergrad ranking for material sciences. NU is ranked 2nd and 3rd in those two. If you look at the so-called undergrad biz school ranking, it's pretty much the grad ranking minus the schools without undergrad programs (if NU opens an undergrad biz program tomorrow, I am pretty sure it's in the top-5 in the next year's "undergrad biz" ranking).</p>
<p>I feel pretty comfortable to tell people NU has great undergrad program in econ because I've never heard anything bad about the major. I took three classes in the econ department and they are among my favorite classes. My econ friends seem to do very well after they graduate (for example, two of them are doing MBA at Harvard and MIT right now, one of my former roomates got accepted to Chicago MBA few years ago, and one is a venture capitalist in Asia for one of the biggest bank in the world at this moment). NU is on the short list of recruiting centers for some of the biggest consulting firms (<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108904)%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108904)</a>. NU won the College Fed Challenge 2 years in a row, suggesting the econ majors compete well against those from other schools.</p>
<p>I'm getting my degree from School of Education and Social Policy, so its ranking and prestige definitely does help. The social sciences are pretty good at Northwestern too (esp. econ, socio and history)</p>
<p>Do you know how much money econ students usually make once they graduate from Northwestern?</p>
<p>The range is form zero to the sky. To be more specific, I'd say that the mid 50 percentile of the econ graduates make something like $50,000-70,000 in their first year out of here, and then there are people making more and people making nothing at all.</p>