<p>UC Berkeley: $25,000 per year</p>
<p>Northwestern: $40,000 per year</p>
<p>Brown: $50,000 per year</p>
<p>Intended major: Economics, but open to other options.</p>
<p>Which college would you guys chose? Any advice is helpful. Thanks.</p>
<p>Where are you from?</p>
<p>How are you paying for this? Parents, Parents and Self, Self, Rich or not?</p>
<p>Are you a math fiend or just so-so or pretty good?</p>
<p>Berkeley. It's the cheapest for you and has the best economics department among your options.</p>
<p>USN <em>graduate</em> ranking
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Distance Enter your zip Score 5.0<br>
1 University of Chicago Chicago, IL Distance Enter your zip Score 5.0<br>
3 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
3 Princeton University Princeton, NJ Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
3 Stanford University Stanford, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
3 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.9<br>
7 Yale University New Haven, CT Distance Enter your zip Score 4.8<br>
8 Northwestern University Evanston, IL Distance Enter your zip Score 4.6
9 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.5<br>
10 University of California--San Diego La Jolla, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.3<br>
11 Columbia University New York, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
11 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
11 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
11 University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI Distance Enter your zip Score 4.2<br>
15 New York University New York, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 4.1<br>
15 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Distance Enter your zip Score 4.1<br>
17 California Institute of Technology NA, CA Distance Enter your zip Score 4.0<br>
17 Cornell University Ithaca, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 4.0<br>
19 University of Rochester Rochester, NY Distance Enter your zip Score 3.9<br>
20 Carnegie Mellon University NA, PA Distance Enter your zip Score 3.8<br>
21 Brown University Providence, RI Distance Enter your zip Score 3.7
21 Duke University NA, NC Distance Enter your zip Score 3.7<br>
21 University of Maryland--College Park College Park, MD Distance Enter your zip Score 3.7<br>
24 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Distance Enter your zip Score 3.6<br>
25 Boston University Boston, MA Distance Enter your zip Score 3.5</p>
<p>graduate rankings aren't particularly relevant.</p>
<p>brown is the best school for undergrads among those choices, marginally more expensive than NU, and much more expensive than berkeley. if money is a big factor go to cal. otherwise, go to brown.</p>
<p>I think Berkeley gives you the most for the money. You also get a chance to get into Hass business undergrad program, one of the best undergrad biz programs in the country.</p>
<p>NU has the advantage of being very flexible about double-majoring/adding minor/certificates etc (I imagine Brown is similar). The quarter system and the typical 12 course-per-yr schedule at NU make double-majoring or even more a very reachable goal in four years. There are lots of business/finance related courses/options outside of econ dept at NU in case you are interested in business:
Kellogg</a> School Certificate Program for Undergraduates - Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
MMSS</a>, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
Northwestern</a> University :: Undergraduate Leadership Program
Business</a> Institutions Program, Northwestern University
Medill</a> - IMC Undergraduate Certificate
Northwestern</a> University - Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences<a href="a%20top-10%20dept%20in%20the%20country">/url</a>
<a href="http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/pdf/sesp/LOC.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/pdf/sesp/LOC.pdf</a></p>
<p>is that tuition they publish or the financial aid packages you got? because once you get a package those numbers will change. Brown doesn't cost $50k a year unless you are wealthy. If you're family is under 100k in income you'll have no loans.</p>
<p>I would go with Brown- but I really like the Northeast, and obviously the other two are great too</p>
<p>Berkeley. Else, its a tossup.</p>