Economics Major

Alexandre
Wed, 23 May 2007 01:33:43 +0000

wetardit, there isn’t such a thing as a top 10 list for undergraduate Econ departments. There are literally dozens of Econ departments that can be considered “one of the best”. Graduate rankings are a good place to start of course, but they do not include many top notch Econ departments that aren’t research intensive, like Dartmouth or Swarthmore. I think the list of the top 10-15 graduate Econ departments has already been discussed.

Columbia University
Harvard University *
Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
Northwestern University *
Princeton University *
Stanford University *
University of California-Berkeley *
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Chicago *
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylania *
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University *

(* denotes definite top 1 Econ Departments)

But you cannot ignore the dozen or so other amazing Econ departments that aren’t as research intensive. Departments like Amherst, Brown, Carleton, Claremont McKenna, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and Williams.