Economics at MIT vs. Yale

tech_fan
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:17:49 +0000

lol. different strokes for different folks, jomjom. Do you remember who ruled England at the time of Adam Smith? Whose impact on humanity has been more profound? (I must confess, it is a bit of a close call, but not THAT close.) “Works for” is a narrow measure of success in life.

Just as an anecdotal observation from the perspective of an economic theory student, while MIT has among the very strongest overall economics departments in the world, it is not the case that a plurality of the top candidates for econ grad school come from MIT undergrad. That distinction would probably go to Harvard… MIT’s econ department struck me as grad-focused. You can certainly work with the best professors if you try hard, but if you want to grow up and be an economist, you might find a bigger crowd of similar people at Harvard or even Yale. (Yale undergrad -> MIT grad has been the trajectory of a few great economists, e.g. Krugman).