UMICH, UIUC, or UW Madison

goldenboy8784
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:50:32 +0000

Alexandre:

At the moment, I would say that the top Economics departments in the nation are Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Stanford closely followed by Cal, Northwestern and Yale. Those are the top 8 and the only Economics departments I would qualify as being significantly better than Michigan in that field. Next would come Columbia, Penn and Wisconsin, closely followed by CMU, Michigan, Minnesota, NYU, UCLA and UCSD.

Alexandre, wow!! Your ranking of economics programs almost exactly mirrors the new NRC’s Regression Based Quality Measure rankings besides your exclusion of Duke, Wash U and U of Maryland-College Park as well as the slight overestimation of Northwestern.

Harvard Professor Greg Mankiw’s economics blog:

[Greg Mankiw’s Blog: New NRC Rankings](Greg Mankiw's Blog: New NRC Rankings)

leads us here…

[Ranking of Economics Graduate Schools — PhDs.org Graduate School Guide](http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/economics/rank/_M______________________________________________________________U)

TIER 1
Harvard
University of Chicago
MIT
Berkeley
Princeton
Stanford
Yale

Tier 2
University of Maryland-College Park (ladies and gentleman, your shocker)
Penn
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Columbia

Tier 3
Brown
Minnesota
UCLA
Cal Tech
Michigan
Wash U
Cornell
Duke
UCSD

Wisconsin is indeed better than Michigan in Economics now at the graduate level. I wonder if even undergraduate Terps would believe me if I told them their Economics program at the graduate level is better than Cornell, Duke and Michigan’s. ;)