MIT or Caltech or University of Chicago

Mikalye
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:19:33 +0000

Economic major Chicago

I politely disagree. According to RePEc, the top 10 University Economics Programs are:

1. 1.1 Harvard University

2. 3.10 University of Chicago

3. 3.54 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4. 3.93 London School of Economics (LSE)

5. 4.42 University of California-Berkeley

6. 4.57 Princeton University

7. 5.52 Oxford University

8. 7.38 New York University

9. 8.43 Columbia University

10. 11.45 Stanford University

I do not think that Econ at Chicago is a shoo-in over Econ at MIT, though if you are thinking about Econ strongly, that may preclude Caltech. The key to me is the very different core curricula. MIT’s core includes 6 Mathematics and Physical Sciences subjects (which is the same number as the Chicago science core, but they are arranged differently), but have a fairly free hand with the required 8 HASS subjects. Chicago’s core is more structured on the HASS side including a Foreign Language requirement, subjects in Art, Music or Drama, etc. It is quite a different experience.