Economics Major

Alexandre
Sun, 20 May 2007 03:04:43 +0000

I don’t think you understand. There are literally dozens of university that are excellent. How do you leave out Amherst or Bowdoin or Claremont McKenna or Darmouth or Haverford or Middlebury or Pomona or Swarthmore or Wesleyan or Williams out of the equation? None of those will make any Econ ranking anytime soon, but they all offer equally good educations and post-graduation opportunities as say Columbia or Penn. In terms of pure research universities, the top 20 undergraduate Econ departments are the following (in my personal and humble opinion):

GROUP I
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago

GROUP II
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

GROUP III
Columbia University
University of Califiornia-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

GROUPS IV & V
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt University
Washington University-St Louis