GW or UW-Madison?

Cheapseats
Sat, 13 May 2006 16:27:31 +0000

chi you asked for economics and here is what alaxandre said in a different thread. He has been helpful for all things business for me so i really respect his opinion on this stuff but remember it is just a single person’s opinion. He ranked it in groups. I’ll post the entire post in quotes



alexandre:

I am not going to give you a ranking of the top 50 programs because there aren’t any for undergraduate institutions. I am going to list 50 programs I think are excellent and group them into peer groups:

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

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

PEER GROUP III:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

PEER GROUP IV:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
University of Wisconsin-Madison

PEER GROUP V:
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia

Peer Group VI:
Boston University
Brandeis University
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Nortth Carolina-Chapel Hill

PEER GROUP VII:
Boston College
Georgetown University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Michigan State University-East Lansing
Ohio State University-Columbus
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
University of California-Davis
University of Washington
Vanderbilt University
Washington University

LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES:
Amherst College
Carleton College
Claremont Mckenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Dartmouth College
Denison University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College



IT came from this thread if you are interested in the discussion. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=184292&page=1&pp=15

ON page 2 you will find the post.

good luck