<p>I've been doing my research and all the rankings that i have come across refer to the graduate school rankings. Can someone please advise on this list of schools:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Stanford
Claremont Mckenna
Duke
University of Chicago
U Penn
Columbia
Northwestern
Mcgill
Williams
Cornell
NYU
MIT
Harvard</p>
<p>Those are all great schools for economics. But if you’ll get into all those schools, I’m not sure how you’re going to turn down Harvard’s offer.</p>
<p>There are no undergraduate rankings. Every single college/university on your list is excellent in Econ and will provide an equally good undergraduate education in the field. In terms of overall department strength, I would split them into three groups:</p>
<p>GROUP 1:
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP 2:
Columbia University
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>GROUP 3:
Claremont McKenna College
Cornell University
Duke University
McGill University
New York University
University of California-Los Angeles
Williams College</p>
<p>RML, I would personally turn down Harvard in favor of MIT or Stanford (or Princeton, though it is not on the OP’s list for some strange reason), but that’s just me.</p>
<p>No one turns down Harvard unless there’s a significant financial aid issue or a huge fit issue. You can take your intro Economics class with Gregory Mankiw!! That’s reason enough to not think twice about another school if you’re a prospective Economics major.</p>
<p>honestly, I would turn down Harvard for Yale, because I like the environment much,much,much better. Also I would choose Chicago over MIT and Stanford, if even just for the history. The Mankiw comment is pretty persuasive, though.</p>
<p>Mankiw only comes to class like 4 times during the semester. He closes himself out to a lot of undergraduates (unless you get an A, then he invites all the A’s to a silly luncheon). Other than that, the TA’s teach most of the class.</p>