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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Economics (Ranked in 2001*)
Rank/School | Average reputation score (5 = highest)
1. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5.0
2. | Harvard University (MA) | 4.9
| Princeton University (NJ) | 4.9
| Stanford University (CA) | 4.9
| University of Chicago | 4.9
6. | University of California--Berkeley | 4.8
7. | Yale University (CT) | 4.7
8. | Northwestern University (IL) | 4.6
9. | University of Pennsylvania | 4.4
10. | University of Wisconsin--Madison | 4.2
11. | University of California--Los Angeles | 4.1
| University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | 4.1
| University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | 4.1
14. | California Institute of Technology | 4.0
| Columbia University (NY) | 4.0
| University of Rochester (NY) | 4.0
17. | Cornell University (NY) | 3.9
| University of California--San Diego | 3.9
19. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 3.7
| New York University | 3.7
21. | Brown University (RI) | 3.6
| Duke University (NC) | 3.6
| University of Texas--Austin | 3.6
24. | Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.5
| University of Maryland--College Park | 3.5
26. | Boston University | 3.4
| University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | 3.4
| University of Virginia | 3.4
29. | Ohio State University--Columbus | 3.3
30. | University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | 3.2
31. | Michigan State University | 3.1
| Pennsylvania State University--University Park | 3.1
| University of California--Davis | 3.1
| University of Iowa | 3.1
| University of Washington | 3.1
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.1
37. | Texas A&M University--College Station | 3.0
| University of Arizona | 3.0
39. | Purdue University--West Lafayette (IN) | 2.9
40. | Boston College | 2.8
| Indiana University--Bloomington | 2.8
| University of California--Santa Barbara | 2.8
| University of Florida | 2.8
| University of Southern California | 2.8
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 2.8
46. | Iowa State University | 2.7
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.7
48. | North Carolina State University--Raleigh | 2.6
| Rice University (TX) | 2.6
| Rutgers State University--New Brunswick (NJ) | 2.6
51. | Claremont Graduate School (CA) | 2.5
| Georgetown University (DC) | 2.5
| University of Colorado--Boulder | 2.5
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