Another University Ranking You Didn’t Know You Needed
Bit of a one for the anoraks this, and certainly one of which I was, until very recently, unaware. It is, as the title suggests, a ranking of Economics departments, namely the Tilburg University Economics Ranking. It’s a pretty straightforward methodology too – they have identified a list of 36 leading journals in the fields of Econometrics, Economics and Finance and have ranked economics schools based on publications in these journals for the last five-year time period. And the results are as follows (with changes to rankings in brackets):
1. HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
3. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
4. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
5. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
6. [+1]STANFORD UNIVERSITY
7. [-1] MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
8. [+2] YALE UNIVERSITY
9. [-1] NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
10. [-1] UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
11. [-1] LSE
12. [+2] UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGA
13. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
14. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
15. DUKE UNIVERSITY
16. [+3] UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
17. [+1] UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
18. [-2] UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
19. [-2] CORNELL UNIVERSITY
20. [+6] UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
And just for domestic interest the other UK placings in the Top 50 are:
22. [+3] UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
32. [+3] UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
36. [+9] UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
41. LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL
48. [-2] UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Fascinating, huh?
