<p>I'm planning on majoring in economics in undergraduate school--can anyone provide a list of the top 10-15 schools for undergraduate economics? Also, what are the advantages/disadvantages in majoring in economics rather than business administration? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton, Yale, Penn (Wharton), Harvard, MIT, Stanford are certainly in the top 10. But there are several dozen colleges and universities with outstanding undergraduate economics programs.</p>
<p>Thanks,
Would you consider JHU as top 10, or one of the other outstanding econ programs?</p>
<p>Gourman undergrad economics ranking:</p>
<p>MIT
Chicago
Stanford
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
U Minnesota
U Penn
U Wisc Madison
UC Berkeley
Northwestern
U Rochester
Columbia
UCLA
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
Brown
UC San Diego
Duke
Cornell
NYU
UVA
UC Davis
U Washington
U Maryland College Park
Michigan State
UNC Chapel Hill
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Texas A&M
Boston U
Washington U St Louis
Purdue West Lafayette
USC
U Texas Austin
Vanderbilt
Ohio State
Iowa State
SUNY Stony Brook
U Iowa
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara
U Pittsburgh
Virginia Tech
Claremont McKenna
Rutgers New Brunswick</p>
<p>NRC ranking:</p>
<p>1 Harvard 4.95
2 Chicago 4.95
3 MIT 4.93
4 Stanford 4.92
5 Princeton 4.84
6 Yale 4.70
7 Cal Berkeley 4.55
8 Penn 4.43
9 Northwestern 4.39
10 Minnesota 4.22
11 UCLA 4.12
12 Columbia 4.07
13 Michigan 4.03
14 Rochester 4.01
15 Wisconsin 3.93
NRC</a> Rankings in Each of 41 Areas</p>
<p>Wow, UCSC is really high up</p>
<p>I don't see UC Santa Cruz anywhere. Do you mean UCSD or UCLA?</p>
<p>You should know that undergrad economics is uniform pretty much everywhere.</p>
<p>If it's a good school, then it probably has a good econ program.</p>
<p>How is U-Minn's undergraduate economics program?? Some people say that the undergraduate programs don't have much to do with the graduate ones.</p>
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<p>More often, they say not to bother basing decisions off of undergrad program rankings, or they say that grad quality does not mean undergrad quality.</p>
<p>However, if the school has a top grad program in a specific subject, the undergrad program is almost always strong, for that subject.</p>
<p>hailey89,
I think they are generally pretty accurate. However they are all between i think 7-10 years old.</p>
<p>generally though, UChicago is perhaps regarded as the best udnergrad and grad econ in maybe the entire world.</p>
<p>can econmics gaurantee you a job that pays well?</p>
<p>No. No major can guarantee you a job that pays well. That's up to the individual and his or her abilities.</p>
<p>oops UCSD lol</p>
<p>is stony brook actually good for undergrad economics?</p>
<p>"How is U-Minn's undergraduate economics program?? " -hailey89</p>
<p>To be honest I lived in MN for 18 yrs and was going to apply there for econ. I instead moved out to California after HS and am now trying to transffer to berkeley. Anyways, if you want to work outside of MN you need to study outside of MN. No one gives a flying duckie about U of M because no one has any idea of their programs. Outside MN you won't be competitive at all!</p>
<p>the rankings are very much geared towards national universities. you should also look at liberal art college programs for undergrad. I can easily guess Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Swarthmore Williams, and Amherst have top top top programs that would outbeat some of the national universities</p>
<p>hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone could offer some input on the difference between studying in economics and undergraduate business programs. I am headed for MIT next year and am not yet sure which one I want to pursue.</p>
<p>Economics will get you in the door at an entry level position unless you went to an ivy, then I assume most of those people would go on to graduate level. </p>
<p>Difference is, if you actually just got through the degree, or know the stuff… When you are working, your employer will know this or not.
One person might get promoted in 6 months, the other person could be in the same job for 5 years and not moving up pay grade much. Unless you know some body, you probably won’t get past an entry level position.</p>
<p>An applied economics degree is probably better at the undergrad level if you do not plan on going farther in your studies.</p>
<p>I think Economics is more broad major than B.A. If u choose B.A u have 2 do kinda same job such as accountng, banking etc.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that Cornell didn’t have their Applied Economcs Management program when NRC rankngs were last done. It was an Agricultural and Resource Economics program before. </p>
<p>BusinessWeek had them at #4 for undergrad last year.</p>