<p>If you don't want to be an econ professor or do think tank research, ignore this. The core curriculum issue is also not addressed.</p>
<p>If you do want to, here is the ranking for the undergraduate programs which best prepare for an econ PhD:</p>
<p>Number of PhDs per 1000 grads </p>
<p>1 Swarthmore College 16
2 Grinnell College 7
3 Williams College 7
4 Carleton College 7
5 Harvard University 6
6 Agnes Scott College 6
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5
8 University of Chicago 5
9 Yale University 5
10 California Institute of Technology 5
11 Princeton University 5
12 Macalester College 5
13 Stanford University 4
14 Pomona College 4
15 Oberlin College 4
16 Wellesley College 4
17 Trinity University 4
18 Bowdoin College 3
19 Earlham College 3
20 Berea College 3
21 Amherst College 3
22 Wabash College 3
23 Bard College 3
24 Rocky Mountain College 3
25 Coe College 3
26 Wesleyan University 3
27 College of William and Mary 3
28 Colby College 3
29 Columbia University in the City of New York 3
30 Hillsdale College 3
31 Franklin and Marshall College 3</p>
<p>Pasted from <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2070739&highlight=econ+reed#post2070739%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2070739&highlight=econ+reed#post2070739</a></p>