Best Graduate Economics Programs in US 2015

Ranked by US News

More US Graduate School Rankings

* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank School name Score
#1 Harvard University

(Cambridge, MA, US)

5.0
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Cambridge, MA, US)

5.0
#1 Princeton University

(Princeton, NJ, US)

5.0
#1 University of Chicago

(Chicago, IL, US)

5.0
#5 Stanford University

(Stanford, CA, US)

4.9
#5 University of California—​Berkeley

(Berkeley, CA, US)

4.9
#7 Northwestern University

(Evanston, IL, US)

4.8
#7 Yale University

(New Haven, CT, US)

4.8
#9 University of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia, PA, US)

4.5
#10 Columbia University

(New York, NY, US)

4.4
#11 New York University

(New York, NY, US)

4.3
#11 University of Minnesota—​Twin Cities

(Minneapolis, MN, US)

4.3
#13 University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor

(Ann Arbor, MI, US)

4.2
#13 University of Wisconsin—​Madison

(Madison, WI, US)

4.2
#15 California Institute of Technology

(Pasadena, CA, US)

4.1
#15 University of California—​Los Angeles

(Los Angeles, CA, US)

4.1
#15 University of California—​San Diego

(La Jolla, CA, US)

4.1
#18 Cornell University

(Ithaca, NY, US)

3.9
#19 Brown University

(Providence, RI, US)

3.8
#19 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)

(Pittsburgh, PA, US)

3.8
#19 Duke University

(Durham, NC, US)

3.8
#22 University of Maryland—​College Park

(College Park, MD, US)

3.7
#22 University of Rochester

(Rochester, NY, US)

3.7
#24 Boston University

(Boston, MA, US)

3.6
#24 Johns Hopkins University

(Baltimore, MD, US)

3.6
#26 University of Texas—​Austin

(Austin, TX, US)

3.5
#27 Ohio State University

(Columbus, OH, US)

3.4
#27 Pennsylvania State University—​University Park

(University Park, PA, US)

3.4
#27 Washington University in St. Louis

(St. Louis, MO, US)

3.4
#30 Michigan State University

(East Lansing, MI, US)

3.3
#30 University of Virginia

(Charlottesville, VA, US)

3.3
#32 Boston College

(Chestnut Hill, MA, US)

3.2
#32 University of California—​Davis

(Davis, CA, US)

3.2
#32 University of Illinois—​Urbana-​Champaign

(Urbana, IL, US)

3.2
#32 University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill

(Chapel Hill, NC, US)

3.2
#36 Arizona State University

(Tempe, AZ, US)

3.1
#36 University of Arizona

(Tucson, AZ, US)

3.1
#36 University of Pittsburgh

(Pittsburgh, PA, US)

3.1
#36 Vanderbilt University

(Nashville, TN, US)

3.1
#40 University of Iowa (Tippie)

(Iowa City, IA, US)

3.0
#40 University of Washington

(Seattle, WA, US)

3.0
#42 Indiana University—​Bloomington

(Bloomington, IN, US)

2.9
#42 Purdue University—​West Lafayette (Krannert)

(West Lafayette, IN, US)

2.9
#42 Texas A&M University—​College Station

(College Station, TX, US)

2.9
#42 University of California—​Santa Barbara

(Santa Barbara, CA, US)

2.9
#46 Georgetown University

(Washington, DC, US)

2.8
#46 University of California—​Irvine

(Irvine, CA, US)

2.8
#48 North Carolina State University—​Raleigh

(Raleigh, NC, US)

2.7
#48 Rice University

(Houston, TX, US)

2.7
#48 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—​New Brunswick

(New Brunswick, NJ, US)

2.7
#48 University of Florida

(Gainesville, FL, US)

2.7
#48 University of Southern California

(Los Angeles, CA, US)

2.7
#53 Syracuse University

(Syracuse, NY, US)

2.6
#53 University of Colorado—​Boulder

(Boulder, CO, US)

2.6
#55 Iowa State University

(Ames, IA, US)

2.5
#56 University of Notre Dame

(Notre Dame, IN, US)

2.4
#56 University of Oregon

(Eugene, OR, US)

2.4
#58 Claremont Graduate University

(Claremont, CA, US)

2.3
#58 George Washington University

(Washington, DC, US)

2.3
#58 Stony Brook University—​SUNY

(Stony Brook, NY, US)

2.3
#58 University of California—​Santa Cruz

(Santa Cruz, CA, US)

2.3
#58 University of Kentucky (Gatton)

(Lexington, KY, US)

2.3
#58 Virginia Tech

(Blacksburg, VA, US)

2.3
#64 CUNY Graduate School and University Center

(New York, NY, US)

2.2
#64 Emory University

(Atlanta, GA, US)

2.2
#64 Florida State University

(Tallahassee, FL, US)

2.2
#64 George Mason University

(Fairfax, VA, US)

2.2
#64 Southern Methodist University

(Dallas, TX, US)

2.2
#64 University of California—​Riverside

(Riverside, CA, US)

2.2
#64 University of Georgia (Terry)

(Athens, GA, US)

2.2
#64 University of Illinois—​Chicago

(Chicago, IL, US)

2.2
#72 Brandeis University

(Waltham, MA, US)

2.1
#72 Georgia State University

(Atlanta, GA, US)

2.1
#72 University of Houston

(Houston, TX, US)

2.1
#72 University of Missouri

(Columbia, MO, US)

2.1
#76 Clemson University (Walker)

(Clemson, SC, US)

2.0
#76 University at Albany—​SUNY

(Albany, NY, US)

2.0
#76 University of Connecticut

(Storrs, CT, US)

2.0
#76 University of Kansas

(Lawrence, KS, US)

2.0
#76 University of Wyoming

(Laramie, WY, US)

2.0

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