economics

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>so… econ at cmu or northwestern. Someone help me out here.</p>

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<p>easy: northwestern</p>

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<p>What makes it so good?</p>

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<p>no clue. all i know is that it’s awesome according to usnews.</p>

<p>it’s at the same level of uchicago, harvard, penn, & mit economics</p>

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<p>doesnt US news only rank graduate econ programs?</p>

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<p>no clue. </p>

<p>trust me on this one. northwestern’s economics department is awesome. cmu’s economics program really can’t match up. i got into cmu economics, but waitlisted at mccormick. if i get in to NU, i’m def going to go to NU b/c i want to have economics as a second major. it’s that good. (i would be turning down michigan, hopkins, carnegie mellon, & rutgers down)</p>

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<p>Northwestern is known to have a very strong economics department. Best two schools in the nation for economics are MIT and U of Chicago. Then, the next are Stanford, Yale, Northwestern, Berkely, and Harvard. Grad schools acknowledge that, according to a professor here at Northwestern. Northwestern’s economics department is especially well known for microeconomics and game theory, in which we rank 1-2 in the nation.</p>

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<p>It’s the same reason that UChicago is said to have great undergrad program–the graduate (i.e. professor) ranking. When people say XYZ college has great program, they are implicitly using graduate ranking even they may not be aware of it.</p>