USC Trustee vs. UChicago for Economics

UCBChemEGrad
Sun, 23 Mar 2014 05:08:32 +0000

Also, they don’t rank undergrad Econ degrees. They rank Econ PhD programs which are most entirely based on faculty research quality. Chicago does have stronger Econ professors that have put out more respected research than USC. Part of this is legacy. Past success continues to attract the top Econ researchers to Chicago.

The rankings have little to do with undergraduate teaching.