<p>In addition, if you DO want to choose based on major, also look at the “econ-like” majors offered at each school. Yale offers and econ & math major (more quantitative) and an ethics, politics, and economics major (application only major that focuses on politics as well as econ). Harvard offers social studies (interdisciplinary major that you can include a hefty amount of econ in). </p>
<p>The basic way to compare this is not by graduate department ranking but by going to each school’s course catalogue.</p>