Economics Department Rankings
R. Amir and M. Knauff’s Ranking Economics Deparments Worldwide on the Basis of PHD Placement, which I found via Greg Mankiw’s Blog, has some surprising conclusions about departmental influence. Harvard and MIT rank at the top, with scores of 100 and 93, which is not surprising. But then there is a huge dropoff, with Stanford, Princeton , CHicago, Berkeley and Yale at 38, 37, 35, 30, 29. There is another giant dropoff to Northwestern, Oxford, LSE, Minnesota, Penn at 9 to 12. Michigan is at 7. Cambridge, Penn State and Rochester are at 5. And it goes down from there.