Dusansky and Vernon Economic Department Rankings

Top 10:

Princeton
Harvard
M.I.T.
Pennsylvania
Northwestern (Illinois)
N.Y.U.
Boston U.
Yale
Stanford
California, San Diego


11-20:

University of Texas at Austin
Rochester (N.Y.)
California, Berkeley
Maryland (College Park)
Johns Hopkins
Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh)
Chicago
Minnesota (Minneapolis)
Wisconsin (Madison)
Virginia (Charlottesville)


21-30:

U.C.L.A.
Columbia (N.Y.)
Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Ohio State (Columbus)
Duke
California, Irvine
Brown
Penn State
California, Davis
Iowa (Iowa City)


31-40:

Cal. Tech.
Florida
Texas A&M (College Station)
California, Santa Barbara
Boston College
Washington (Seattle)
Carnegie-Mellon
North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Illinois (Urbana)
Vanderbilt


41-50:

Virginia Tech
Cornell (N.Y.)
Colorado
Michigan State
Houston
Rutgers
North Carolina State
Rice
SUNY-Albany
Georgetown

Source: Dusansky, Richard and Clayton Vernon. 1998. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12 (1), Winter.