<p>I’ve generally just used the NRC rankings: <a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html[/url]”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html</a></p>
<p>NRC Rankings in Economics</p>
<p>1 Harvard 4.95
2 Chicago 4.95
3 MIT 4.93
4 Stanford 4.92
5 Princeton 4.84
6 Yale 4.70
7 Cal Berkeley 4.55
8 Penn 4.43
9 Northwestern 4.39
10 Minnesota 4.22
11 UCLA 4.12
12 Columbia 4.07
13 Michigan 4.03
14 Rochester 4.01
15 Wisconsin 3.93</p>