<p>Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>yeah i heard about its graduate program. i read it somewhere that they are the top10, or were they ranked 10th for their graduate studies.. the undergraduate economics are the one im concerned bout though, but once again thanks guys !</p>
<p>indodarwin,</p>
<p>The gap between the undergrad and grad program, while noticeable, isn't especially large.</p>
<p>I got into Chicago, but I like Brown so much better...
I just feel like I'd be a fool for giving up Chicago's economics for Brown's, but overall, I like Brown about 10,000,000 x more</p>
<p>nowayjose,</p>
<p>If you'll be happier at Brown, go there. Look at how successful Brown is at getting its undergrads into top PhD programs. It won't matter as long as you demonstrate your potential there.</p>
<p>LACs for econ from Rugg's:
Amherst
Barnard
Bates
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Connecticut C
Dartmouth
DePauw
Grinnell
Hamilton
Haverford
Holy Cross
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Lafayette
Macalester
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Occidental
Pomona
Rhodes
Smith
St Mary's (MD)
St Olaf
U of South
Swarthmore
Trinity (CT)
Trinity (TX)
Wabash
Wake Forest
Washington & Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
Willamette
Williams</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad economics ranking:</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad
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>Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I notice that most threads dealing with good Economics schools seem to include Boston University but omit Boston College (and sometimes also omit Brandeis). At the same time, many of these threads state that overall rank is a good indicator of Economics program quality. Boston College is ranked significantly higher than Boston University. Does this mean that Boston College truly has a pretty lousy economics program or is there some intangible/biased reason for why it's not included on the list?</p>
<p>I'm wondering the same thing about Brandeis, since Brandeis has a 5-year BA/MA program in conjunction with Columbia (where the Brandeis Econ student spends his last years). What do you think?</p>
<p>Good friend at William & Mary majored in Econ. Went on to PhD at Yale. Now a tenured professor at Davidson.</p>
<p>From what I understand, mostly all LACs or LACs-like colleges are good in Econ. I believe the tier system is based on job recruitment and Boston College has a great business school. I believe it goes a good business school means a good econ. but a good econ. doesn't mean a good business school. However econ. and business are related but not the same so... yeah. I'm sure if you go BC or Brandeis you'll get a great education.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response HyunwooP!</p>
<p>"I'm sure if you go BC or Brandeis you'll get a great education."</p>
<p>The interesting thing is that I actually like BU more, so I'm always looking for excuses as to why I should go to BU over BC or some other place if I were to get into both. (As a matter of fact, I'm not even applying to BC or Brandeis as I simply don't like them, but I'd consider adding them to my list if their Econ education is better than BU's afterall.) So do you have any idea why they're not included in the list, even under the LAC section (although I think they're technically not LACs)?</p>
<p>Also, I'm curious about Northeastern University. I'm not a big fan of it, but it has a co-op program for all its majors, including economics, so I'm wondering whether co-op will go a long way towards finding someone a job after graduation? Also, unlike a lot of other colleges, it offers both a BA and a BS in Economics. My family instinctively thinks that the designation of BA alone will make it very difficult for a person to find a job and thus encourages me to take BS, even if the general curriculum is very similar. Do you know about the differences between the two, both in terms of typical curriculum and in terms of job prospects?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Very very few employers care about the BA vs. BS distinction.</p>
<p>Where does USC come in in all of this?? ( Im ignoring gourman )</p>
<p>Clollin, I'm a senior looking into majoring in Econ as well. My choices for colleges so far are BU, CMU, NYU, and U of Mich-Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>I see. I was considering adding CMU to my list as a result of its allegedly good Economics program according to Gourman. BU's one of the colleges I really like (the others being Rice and UCLA).. NYU is a bit too large and frantic for my tastes.. U Mich-Ann Arbor is an overly enormous college in a location that's not urban enough for my tastes (I like relatively large cities, but not quite as large as New York).</p>
<p>the best is UChicago
then ide say HYPSM berkeley</p>
<p>i got a 2030 in sat.. can someone please suggest some good colleges of eco in which i have realistic chances of getting in</p>
<p><a href="http://www.econphd.net/rankings.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.econphd.net/rankings.htm</a></p>
<p>1 Harvard U USA 210.7 121
2 U Chicago USA 159.3 94
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA 136.8 65
4 U California - Berkeley USA 134.9 93
5 Princeton U USA 118.3 52
6 Stanford U USA 114.3 92
7 Northwestern U USA 112.9 68
8 U Pennsylvania USA 110.9 78
9 Yale U USA 108.9 60
10 New York U (NYU) USA 105.1 82
11 U California - Los Angeles (UCLA) USA 94.9 70
12 London School of Economics (LSE) UK 94.9 74
13 Columbia U USA 93.2 85
14 U Wisconsin - Madison USA 69.5 53
15 Cornell U USA 68.6 66</p>
<p>Schools like Duke, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Williams have solid economics programs but also some of the best alumni networks that assist in jobs and grad school placement.</p>
<p>My problem with the econphd.net ranking as a metric of undergrad education is that it completely ignores LACs. I doubt that UCLA's undergrad education is better than Pomona's or Brown's or other smaller schools who will not have PhD programs of note (or at all.)</p>