Top 7 Economics Schools in the US

Hey everyone, this is Gus with Crimson Education. And if you're really interested in learning about making money, you could either visit a mint or you could study economics, the academic study of wealth. Economics is a popular topic of study because it offers a solid base to go into a lot of different career paths, including some really lucrative ones. Money, I smell money. Okay. So if learning about making money sounds like you, let's take a look at the top seven economic schools in the US. Number seven takes us to Columbia University, located in New York City, which is coincidentally the economic center of the US banking industry. Columbia offers a variety of economics programs, depending on what your long-term career goals are and also offers master's and PhD degrees in economics. The number six school for economics in the US is the University of Chicago, which is like the king of academic economics. I am the king. UChicago has produced more Nobel prize winning economists than any other university. It's not guaranteed that you'll win one if you go there, but like, it's almost guaranteed. And you can take classes from the author of Freakonomics, Steven Levin. Economists are terrible. Number five is the University of California at Berkeley, the top public university in the country, which has what is regarded as one of the most modern and forward thinking economics departments in the world. Berkeley is also about three times larger than the rest of the schools on our list. So it's a pretty good choice if you want a big school with a great econ program. Berkeley's main rival is actually our number four school, Stanford University. Stanford has put a lot of effort into beefing up its economics department in recent years and has some of the most accomplished economics faculty in the world as a result. Stanford is also right down the street from Google and a lot of other tech companies. So if you're interested in combining tech and econ, it's a good choice for you. Our number three econ school is the esteemed Wharton School of Business, part of the University of Pennsylvania. Students can get a bachelor of science or a bachelor of arts in economics, depending on their interests. And Wharton has produced some of the most important business leaders of our time, including the CEOs of Tesla and Google, Warren Buffet, and the current president of the United States. We can't sell beef, it's peanuts. It could happen to you too. MIT is our number two US economics school. Since less than 1% of the undergraduate population at MIT actually winds up studying economics, it is a really small and personalized department, which is not something you're gonna find at many other schools. And finally, our number one US economics school is Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actually right down the street from MIT. Economics is one of the biggest and most popular departments at Harvard, which makes sense since most of the faculty are really big names in the field. You're probably going to be getting taught by the professors who wrote your textbooks. Well, that's our list for today. If you have any questions, please hit us up in the comments or send an email to info at crimsoneducation.org and mention this video. And don't forget to like and subscribe. I'm Gus with Crimson Education signing off. Thanks for watching.