State Dept.: UChicago Has Top Econ Dept.

<p>True but UChicago has more Nobel prizes in economics than any other school in the world (this list includes anyone who was a student or professor or researcher at the school–for all schools–not just UChicago):</p>

<p>1) UChicago - 26
2) MIT - 20
3) Harvard - 18
4) Berkeley - 17
5) Stanford - 16
6) Columbia - 14
7) Yale - 13
8) Princeton - 12
9) London School of Economics - 11
10) Cambridge / Oxford / Carnegie Mellon - 9</p>

<p>(These figures haven’t been completely updated for 2012 yet; but UChicago and MIT retain their lead.)</p>