Economics Major

ledzep
Wed, 23 May 2007 04:48:51 +0000

Alexandre:

LSE? First of all, the OP was asking about US departments. Secondly, LSE is not on par with Chicago when it comes to Econ. LSE is excellent, comparable to the likes of Columbia, Penn and other top 10 Econ departments, but it is not quite as highly regarded as Chicago or MIT.

Maybe this is why I ranked LSE BELOW those schools?

Also, the Times ranked the LSE as #2 worldwide for social sciences, second only to Harvard. I would put the LSE’s respect on par with Chicago and any other school, the reason why I ranked it below the others is because the UNDERGRAD academic experience at a US uni can’t be beat, but at the grad level I’d put the LSE up against any other school.



nauru:

Whoever said most politicians are polisci majors, please provide a link because I am calling BS on that statement.

First of all, I said politicians who are ALSO lawyers.

Off the top of my head, you have, uh, Barack Obama (you may have heard of him), Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton…



EDIT: Just for kicks i decided to enter economics ranking into google to see what pops up. And lo, there it was. An economics ranking, first hit. According to google the search took 0.06 seconds. Laziness is lame.

Amen.