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Originally Posted by econcurious
Yet, the quality of academic placements from UChicago is not that good, barely comparable to top 10-15 schools... And although John List seems like a friendly professor, my friend who is doing his PhD in econ at UChicago complains non-stop that most of the faculty treat the students there rather badly...
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So if anecdotal evidence is of any use I can add three data points...I know 3 guys at diffrent stages of the phd program and all have expressed very strong feelings of loyalty and satisfaction with the program at Chicago.
Some empirical evidence on rankings by placemeent can be seen here:
http://www.ires.ucl.ac.be/DP/IRES_DP/2005-41.pdf and Chicago comes in 5th.