<p>which schools have the best economics programs besides the obvious elites (u of chicago, harvard, berkeley, etc.)?</p>
<p>UNC I dunno if u consider it elite, but it is pretty tough to get into</p>
<p>NYU is great for econ.</p>
<p>a lot of the smaller schools</p>
<p>Denison University</p>
<p>The reality is this: At the undergraduate level (your first four years of college), there is no list of the best (whatever that means) colleges for economics. At every college, there are good and bad economics teachers.</p>
<p>Your primary focus should be on how the entire college, not just the econ dept., fits your needs. If you can find a college where you’ll be happy, flourish academically, and be able to feel “connected” with many areas of the college, then you’ve picked the right place.</p>
<p>Where you attend graduate school is of much greater significance than where you go as an undergrad.</p>
<p>UCSD is a top ten econ program according to us news. UCLA is a top 12 econ department i believe according to us news. they are elite, although not as elite as say Stanford or Harvard. UNC and Wisconsin are another couple schools that probably have solid econ programs and are again elite, but not ultra elite.</p>
<p>i’ve been told that Middlebury has a good econ program for a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>old but wise has it right. While there are some that are considered the best, even on the undergrad level, you’ll typically get a good econ education at any top school - including the “non-elite” schools.</p>
<p>Colgate and Holy Cross.</p>
<p>University of Rochester</p>
<p>What do you mean by elite? Top 25 universities and top 25 LACs? Top 50 universities and top 50 LACs? Top 25 Economics departments? </p>
<p>Anyway, assuming you mean top 20-25 universities and LACs (UCLA, UNC, UVa, Colgate, Middlebry are all elite if you ask me), here are some universities that are not quite elite but that have excellent Econ departments:</p>
<p>Boston University
Denison University
New York University
University of California-Irvine
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Is CMC considered elite?</p>
<p>i would consider carnegie mellon elite and ucsd elite and wisconsin elite. deffiantly should be listed with the likes of ucla, middleberry, especially for econ.</p>
<p>^^^ I deffiantly wouldn’t consider any of those schools ‘elite’</p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>UCChris, Carnegie Mellon University is definitely elite as far as I am concerned. On a personal note, I would also list Wisconsin among the elite. However, relative to this forum, Wisconsin is generally not considered elite as an overall undergraduate institution. I find this distinction ridiculous and I always voice my opinion, but for the pusposes of this thread, I felt that leaving my personal high opinion of Wisconsin out of my answer. I personally don’t think UCSD is an elite undergraduate institution. It is an excellent university with many AMAZING graduate programs (especially in the life/Biological sciences, Economics and Political Science), but in terms of resources, alumni network, connections to industry etc… I think UCSD sill has some growing up to do before it can lay claim to the term “undergraduate elite”. Of course, in the context of Economics, Political Science and the life sciences, UCSD and Wisconsin are definitely elite, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.</p>
<p>Seiken, Claremont McKenna is definitely elite as far as I am concerned. That’s why I did not list it above.</p>