<p>i love how people basically make up information on this site about the quality of particular academic areas at particular schools</p>
<p>harvard and princeton (and MIT and stanford) have the best econ departments but both have stringment requirements. this is only important if you are planning to apply to econ grad school and are looking to hook up with a "name" professor to write your rec (pedigree matters a lot for econ). the other ivies also offer outstanding economics educations for undergrads though, and the differences between them are nominal. the ranking of groups that are listed above are ludicrous.</p>
<p>as others have pointed out brown has the least requirements and an open curriculum.</p>
<p>your best bet might be to just look at the department websites at these schools and see if they meet your needs </p>
<p><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/undergraduate.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/undergraduate.php</a>
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/economics/undergraduate/s5_4_1.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/economics/undergraduate/s5_4_1.html</a>
<a href="http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/major.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/major.html</a>
<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eeconomic/Ungrad.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~economic/Ungrad.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.economics.harvard.edu/undergraduate/%5B/url%5D">http://www.economics.harvard.edu/undergraduate/</a>
<a href="http://www.econ.upenn.edu//Undergraduate/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.econ.upenn.edu//Undergraduate/index.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.econ.princeton.edu/undergrad/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.econ.princeton.edu/undergrad/index.html</a>
<a href="http://www.econ.yale.edu/undergrad/ugrad.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.econ.yale.edu/undergrad/ugrad.htm</a></p>