Finance PhD Program Rankings

[madhatter11]

Hey everyone,

I have noticed that many people keep referring to "top 10/20/50/etc." programs, and I was just wondering if there is actually a ranking of Finance PhD programs available. I know some sites rank programs based on the number of publications by the faculty in a given year... are these the rankings everyone is using? Or is there another ranking list out there?

[Hadiran]

In fact, no formal rankings are avaliable We talk about the topXX on somewhat personal judgement.

[madhatter11]

Thats kind of what I was thinking. In that case, I would be interested to get peoples opinions about what schools would be around each area of the "rankings" (i.e. the schools that would be around 10-20, 40-50, and around 75th) just for a general reference. I know the rankings would change if you specify certain research areas, so lets just with general quality of the programs.

[EE570]

In my opinion for Finance these are the top (in no particular order):

Stanford, UCLA, Chicago, NYU, Wharton, Harvard (Biz econ), MIT, and perhaps the econ program at Princeton specializing in financial econ.

After these, there are a bunch of schools which are great:

Duke, Northwestern, UNC, Texas and other similar schools.

Good luck

[applicant12]

http://wpcarey.asu.edu/finance/rankings/results.cfm

this ranking is on the website of the ASU.