Nicushor

Hi! Rank in tiers nation top business/finance programs.

You can use:
The Top Undergraduate Business Programs - BusinessWeek , Undergraduate business specialties: Finance - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report ...

openedskittles

For finance:

Tier 1:
Penn
MIT
NYU

Tier 2:
Michigan
Berkeley
Texas

Tier 3:
Virginia
UNC
CM

Tier 4:
Indiana
Cornell
USC
Notre Dame

Tier 5:
Emory
Georgetown
Washington



For economics:

Tier 1:
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Chicago

Tier 2:
Northwestern
Berkeley
Penn
Yale

Tier 3:
Columbia
UCLA
Michigan

Tier 4:
Brown
CM
Cornell
Duke
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Rochester
Wisconsin

Tier 5:
Boston
UCSD
Maryland
Minnesota
Texas



Keep in mind that among top schools there are more economics programs than finance programs. Also, all of the programs in this post are very, very good. Even tier 5 programs are amazing and far above average.

cubs77

Where would university of Illinois fall in these tiers? Also, I dont think Texas should be that high certainly not better than Carnegie or Virginia.

maxellis

According to us news:

1. Penn
2. NYU
3. Cal
4. Mich
5. MIT
6. Texas
7. CMU
8. Virginia
9. UNC
10. Indiana

openedskittles

Illinois has a very solid accounting program, second only to Texas for a while now, but it doesn't come to mind for finance.

Also, Texas has surprisingly good opportunities for finance majors and a lot of really big names recruit them including investment banks, big 4 accounting and big 3 consulting firms. It was ranked 4th for finance last year.