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Old 11-04-2006, 10:26 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by OneMoreEcon View Post
I think I was pretty objective regarding Cornell's placements, since I seriously considered their offer. But really, most of their placements in recent years suck real bad. I'd love to be on the faculty one day, but they don't seem to give a rat's a*s about the grad students. Ehrenberg seemed to be a definite exception and has gotten some really good placements for his students. Oh, and the recent Minnesota placement wasn't in the UMN econ dept... it was another dept (yeah, it's misleading).
The further a program gets from top-10, the sketchier placements will be. As far as I can tell, U. Texas or UC Davis have been the best placements Johns Hopkins has had in the past 15 years. Should we then conclude that the faculty at Hopkins don't care about the graduate students there? If not, why do you think this is the case at Cornell?
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