<p>actually, usnews has yale high in econometrics - it’s 3rd
if anything, that’s what is getting yale’s econ ranks up</p>
<p>Yale doesn’t offer much in the way of behavioral economics, but I don’t know about the offerings at other universities.</p>
<p>“It is a popular undergraduate major, so that must mean something about the quality of the instruction in econ.”
umm. no. econ’s a popular major at any college.</p>
<p>Yale has an extremely strong economics program. The graduate program is ranked about fifth or sixth in the country, but only because it is slightly smaller than powerhouses such as UChicago. But, anyone applying to college should be more concerned with the UNDERGRAD program. At the undergraduate level, Yale’s economics program is probably the strongest in the country (perhaps tied with Chicago, Wellesley and Princeton).</p>
<p>That’s hard to say with authority.</p>
<p>MIT’s and Stanford’s econ programs are very strong at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Have you all forgotten about Wharton?</p>
<p>UPenn’s economics program is not ranked very highly. Obviously, Wharton has a good business school but that’s not really what is being discussed here. And I think Wharton’s program is a bit overrated - it ranks high in business because it has a very large enrollment, high profile and a strong MBA program (just as McDonald’s or Applebee’s have a high profile among restaurants because of their size), but I don’t think it is particularly stronger than anywhere else, especially at the undergraduate level. </p>
<p>If you look at where CEOs went to undergrad college, more went to Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Columbia, or Stanford than Penn/Wharton.</p>
<p>I concur that it matters if you are looking at Micro or MAcro economics. Also helps to know your political bend…some programs are very conservative…some very liberal.</p>
<p>Yale’s work on behavioral economics is definetely up there among the best. Some of the key figures in the movement, such as Rob Shiller, teach there.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shiller[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shiller</a></p>
<p>Both Penn and Columbia have targeted their Econ department for major institutional drives and funding increases to bring them into the top 5. </p>
<p>Watch those schools.</p>
<p>The economics department here is very strong, and quite interdisciplinary – if you’d like, you could even specialize in Economics and Mathematics. I’m an econ major, and probably will double major in International Studies, which is a wonderful complement. There are many courses to choose from, and several big names easily accessible - Bob Shiller (who teaches Financial Markets this semester), Ray Fair (Econometrics), William Nordhaus (Macroecon), and Dean Karlan to name a few…</p>
<p>What I really like about our econ department is that it caters to the economic theorist and those who just want to learn about the dynamics of economics in contemporary stuff - policies, markets, developing countries, law, international trade, etc. A lot of economic courses can be supplemented (and sometimes are prerequisites to) courses in International Studies, Politics, and History.</p>