danceluvur26

Hey everybody, I was wondering what you think are the top ten schools w/undergrad economic programs. I posted a thread in the Yale forum asking if that had a good undergrad econ program, and most ppl said that it was good but beneath UChicago, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and UPenn. If you have any thoughts, just post them down here. Thank you!

jpps1

Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Princeton
Penn, Yale, Northwestern, Columbia, Brown

I'm probably forgetting someone here. Alexandre is much more knowledgeable.

quagmire123

I'm not that knowledgeable, but if you're looking for undergrad economics then I know Claremont McKenna College is excellent. There's also UC Berkeley (if you're in state).

danceluvur26

thanx every1, any1 else have any comments on the subject?

redhare317

By nature, top liberal arts programs generally have top econ programs. So you can get them at ivies, top LAC's, UChicago, etc.

danceluvur26

thanx redhare

danceluvur26

any1 else? I no that u guys haffta no SOMETHING!!!

Kjoodles

UChicago, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Upenn, Northwestern, UCB, CMU

But then, who really knows what is the best? You'd stereotype MIT and CMU to be better Quantitative people than something from UChicago and Columbia.

axman319

where does dartmouth rank in all of this?

danceluvur26

from what ive seen dartmouth isnt really in the top ten undergrad econ schools...

axman319

hmf. i'm not saying that you are wrong, but in general that doesnt make sense to me. How could a school have the #1 ranked grad business school (Tuck) and not have a very strong econ program? totally baffles me

danceluvur26

i no that was what i was thinking too... who knows?

jpps1

Business and economics are related about the same as math and physics. In other words, they borrow from and build on each other, but they are clearly separate fields. So it's not really much of a curiosity.

Alexandre

Most schools that have good Business programs have solid Econ departments. But it does not hold true the other way around.

At any rate, if I had to "group" Econ programs, I would go with 5 groups. Even schools in the fifth group have awesome Econ programs mind you.

GROUP I:
Harvard University
Masachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago

GROUP II:
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

GROUP III:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

GROUP IV:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison

GROUP V:
Boston University
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota
University of Texas-Austin

Although not listed above, many LACs also have excellent Econ departments. Chief among them are:
Amherst College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Dartmouth College (not quite a LAC, but it does not offer graduate degrees in Econ either)
Denison University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College

the_ALlianz85

How does UCI rank?