<p>criteria:
a) placement of graduate students - I'm sure Princeton and Chicago do better on this</p>
<p>b) total publications in the top 5 journals (AER, Econometrica, JPE, QJE, RES)
here I'm sure Princeton is ahead of Hopkins, and Chicago probably is too.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to see per-capita publications in top 5 journals; this would help Hopkins, which is smaller than the others. </p>
<p>c) reputation/quality of faculty : this does reflect past publications as well as recent ones, but I still think it has some relevance.</p>