Economics at MIT vs. Yale

RenTheSecond
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:58:28 +0000

<quote> Most of the top economists and public officials in government and economics hold ties to MIT such as Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers. </quote>

Not to mention Christina Romer (Chief of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors), Austan Goolsbee (Chief of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board), and Paul Krugman (the most recent Nobel Laureate) all got their PhDs at MIT. Keep in mind that the department isn’t even very big…

But your question was about undergrad. I think Physics is right to point out that a big difference will be class size and assumed knowledge of mathematics. I also think social interactions will generally be different between MIT and Yale; you’ll interact with technically-apt students all-day-every-day at MIT, whereas you’ll interact with humanists, historians, and the like more often at Yale. Consider which suits you.