What is the #1 college for undergraduate Economics in the world

College Search & Selection
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<p>Yep, nothing beats a good ol’ reputational index. Those things are so hard to criticize. :)</p>

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<p>Interesting how little things change in five years. </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/110449-best-economics-department.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/110449-best-economics-department.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Lots of discussions about rankings from Gourman to USnews. Also some references to Coupe’s work. </p>

<p>Onecircuit, here’s one to add to your lists of rankings by citation. Courtesy of CollegeHelp</p>

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<p>Thanks for the memories xiggi! hehe! I stand by what I wrote in post #19. It goes to show how slowly things change in the world of academe.</p>

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<p>^ Interesting data, xiggi. This list reads pretty much like a “who’s who” of top LACs, supporting my earlier contention that almost any top LAC will have a quality economics faculty, making it possible to get a strong foundational education in economics, albeit without all the bells and whistles of a larger university. </p>

<p>There are some notable schools missing from the list, though. Top 25 US News LACs that don’t appear on this list: Carleton, Davidson, Harvey Mudd (no surprise there as it’s mainly a math/science/engineering school), Bates, Colby, Oberlin, and Scripps (though Scrippsies can presumably take additional econ classes at CMC and/or Pomona). And the service academies, of course, but they shouldn’t really be counted as LACs anyway.</p>

<p>And a few schools “punch above their weight” in this field. The non-top 25 US News LACs that make into the top 20 in economics scholarship are: Union, Lafayette, Denison, and Franklin & Marshall, as well as Barnard and Macalester which, although they fall just outside the US News top 25, score quite high in this ranking. Hamilton (#18 US News) and Colgate (#21 US News) also outperform their overall US News ranking, while in econ scholarship Amherst slightly underperforms its overall US News ranking and its AWS rivals Williams and Swarthmore. </p>

<p>Finally, CMC’s lead on the rest of this field is truly impressive.</p>

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<p>I know this is off-message, but many people are unaware of the excellence of the Government Dept. at Claremont McKenna. The faculty numbers 29 to 30 and this semester they are offering 38 courses. The professors are first-rate and, unlike most other colleges, there political views encompass both conservative and liberal ideologies.</p>

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<p>parent57, geesh, you really are pushing Claremont McKenna on this message board eh?</p>