<p>Can someone tell me how the economics dept. and biology dept. at FSU are ranked nationally or where to find this information?</p>
<p>FSU lists many rankings here: [FSU</a> Highlights](<a href=“http://fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html]FSU”>Rankings | Florida State University)</p>
<p>Graduate rankings are more specific and show FSU rated 89th nationally (US News 2007) in biological sciences with a 3.0 rating. FSU is unranked nationally in economics (US News 2005).</p>
<p>I’m going to break from the norm and tell you that undergraduate “rankings” don’t mean much and quality of education seldom differs from one school to the next unless you attend a liberal arts/honors college or a select number of ultra-elite universities (which themselves operate more like large liberal arts colleges than traditional post-doctoral research institutions). You’re going to get the same sort of presentation (i.e. lectures) and use the same textbooks regardless. Understand that schools like FSU, UF, USF et al are research schools, and many faculty members are not “teachers” so much as they are researchers who are paid to teach. Quality of teaching can vary widely as a result.</p>
<p>You should certainly take into account department resources and faculty research interests (grad school rankings might be of some, minimal use here), as you might want to consider working yourself into a senior thesis/research project as your undergraduate career culminates, but your absolute first priority should be choosing a school and major which you will enjoy and appreciate.</p>
<p>Graduate school is a completely different ball game, but that’s a bit outside the scope of this thread, no?</p>