Awesome schools for economics??

monydad
Thu, 05 May 2005 18:17:00 +0000

From a practical standpoint I suggest you deal with it by eliminating the special-purpose college enrollment from a university’s student population in the denominator. Since these are separate colleges with separate admissions standards and practices, it’s evident in most cases that these are clearly more than “administrative” distinctions.

An applicant can only apply to one of the colleges at a university in any event, and there are not many economics phD hopefuls in, eg, a university’s College of Architecture.

That’s how I would try to deal with it from a practical standpoint.

Failing that, just recognize that the data without adjustment is of limited utility in making meaningful distinctions among institutions. And don’t present the analysis without the requisite caveats about its applicability.