Best School For Economics

IndianOptimist
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:24:35 +0000

Generally, top liberal arts programs have good economics programs - so I’d throw in majority of the Ivies, as well as Stanford, Berkeley. Be sure to make sure that you actually KNOW what economics is, most students go in thinking to learn business skills, but in reality it’s a very different story. Traditonally, strong business schools have good economics programs (UNDERGRAD), but it does NOT work vice versa typically.

Note that even the economics programs in Group 5 are extremely good.

This is taken from Alexandre’s post on another thread. All credit goes to him

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

END CREDIT ALEXANDRE