<p>i'm indecisive between econ schools and business schools...
can any1 give me a list of top undergrad econ programs? i couldn't find it anywhere on the internet</p>
<p>i would assume any top school thats not focused on liberal arts</p>
<p>You assume wrong. Economics is usually considered a liberal arts major.
It's by far the most popular major at Harvard and a list of top programs would read very similar to the US news rankings in almost every regard (with the exception of Caltech).</p>
<p>just search the forums.</p>
<p>for obvious choices.. the ivies and top privates such as duke, uchicago, northwestern</p>
<p>TOP UNIVERSITIES FOR ECONOMICS:
GROUP I
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>GROUP IV
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>GROUP V
Boston University
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
Washington University-St Louis</p>
<p>TOP LACs FOR ECONOMICS:
Amherst College
Brandeis University
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Dartmouth College (not a LAC, but Dartmouth only offers Econ at the undergraduate level)
Deinison University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>Now you can major in econ at Northwestern while pursuing the new undergrad finance "certificate" program from the b-school.</p>
<p>Where did you get those groupings, Alexandre?</p>
<p>i posted this sometime ago but it relates again. i'll just copy and paste.</p>
<p>don't know what this says about the quality of the department...but i thought that this list was interesting. swarthmore is #1 by a long shot as the per capita producer of econ PhDs</p>
<p>Number of PhDs per 1000 grads</p>
<p>Academic field: Economics</p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>
<p>Number of Undergraduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database</p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period</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>Hey, Alexandre, what do you think about Bowdoin for economics? You have not included it in your list and it's a top LAC. Why?</p>