<p>Does anyone have a ranking of the undergrad economics? (including liberal art colleges and the unis)</p>
<p>Alexandre will help you out, but he organized it into three tiers for the top 15 or so schools, and I will attempt to recreate it:</p>
<p>Tier 1: HYPSM, Berkeley, Chicago
Tier 2: Penn, Columbia, Mich, Northwestern
Tier 3: Brown, Duke, Dartmouth, ummm Cornell...I sort of forget the rest...</p>
<p>Of course for undergrad, the strength of social science programs usually correlates with the strength of the school overall, whereas the differences become larger between departments at the graduate level</p>
<p>wut does Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 mean?</p>
<p>Like tied for how good, HYPSM are tied for first, the Tier school schools are like tied for seventh...etc</p>
<p>You should not be concerned about the ranking at the undergraduate level. Any excellent school would give you an excellent education in economics.</p>
<p>I don't know where you're getting these tiers from. You can do anything with a major in economics from Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, Cornell just as easily as you can from Penn, Columbia, UMich, Northwestern.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, UCB, Penn, Northwestern, UCLA, Columbia, Michigan, Rochester, Brown, UCSD, NYU, Cornell</p>
<p>uh those aren't undergrad rankings, Brown Cornell and NYU wouldn't be above Dartmouth or Duke, Mich is higher, NU is higher I think...are those grad? or just your own?</p>
<p>that tier system is retarded and bias (alexandre went to michigan) and I dont see the difference between berkley and Dartmouth/duke</p>
<p>HC240, don't insult Alexandre, he's one of the few people on these boards who actually graduated from top colleges and is part of good jobs,and can advise us well. I'm tired of High School Freshman acting like they can rank colleges and tell better than people. Even if Alexandre is biased, his rankings are better than anything you could come up with.</p>
<p>Apparently Wesleyan and Colgate are really good for economics :)</p>
<p>thethoughtprocess,</p>
<p>Regarding the tiers, I've seen some rankings putting Northwestern in the top-5 or above couple of those in your tier 1. Depending on which rankings you look at, Northwestern may belong to tier 1. :)</p>
<p>Yah, thats probably right, I admittedly don't know much about specific departments at any schools....don't these rankings change every year anyways (depending on faculty moves, funding, how strong the students are in department, etc.)?</p>
<p>It's one thing to come up with overall rankings for colleges based on objective inputs, but to bicker which school is ranked #6 and which is #8 for a specific discipline within each school and how that should be the threshold between "tiers" is not only meaningless, but isn't even based on anything remotely substantive.</p>
<p>In my unprofessional opinion, I cannot see a significant difference in what you can learn at the undergraduate level in economics at one top-level institution with a decent sized econ faculty compared to another. If one school is lacking something in their program (econ courses) like math or writing - take those courses on the side.</p>
<p>Economics at Carnegie Mellon recently merged with Tepper which is a top 5 so check that out as well. With such a new program there is already 6 nobel laurettes in Economics with 2 professors winning in '04 or '05. I think Quant is also ranked #2. </p>
<p>I would also of course check out Ivies + UChicago and all the other choices ppl have already listed. I hear MIT econ is also very quantitative based so it depends on what you like.</p>
<p>rgs, I agree...I doubt econ at the undergrad level at Columbia or Princeton or Columbia are much better than Dartmouth or Duke or Brown, however the grad programs at each school depend much more on individual department strength rather than overall school strength</p>
<p>is UC sandiego economic's major good? i got accepted into UC sandiego, and i could not really find much ranking information around in the net. my mom is bugging me 24/7 and she wonders if there would be any good job prospect in doing economic major, especially in UC sandiego. </p>
<p>can anyone help me out here, i would like to print a list of ranking and show it to my mom so that will ease her mind..</p>
<p>UCSD has an excellent undergrad program in econ, and easily a top 15 graduate program.</p>
<p>You'll be fine.</p>
<p>UCSD is well regarded in economics. particularly econometrics, on the graduate level. I'm not sure how this necessarily translates at the undergrad level, but it must certainly still be highly respected. I think too much is made of particular rankings of undergrad departments since it's so subjective.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.phds.org/rankings/economics/%5B/url%5D">http://www.phds.org/rankings/economics/</a></p>