Maryland

[lycinsg]

i was wondering if they really just give out decisions through mail. cos the website said decisions cannot be told through phone or email

[fp3690]

I got an email last year.

[Econ_PhD_hopeful]

I think we will get an email saying we can view our decision online:

From The Graduate School - University of Maryland
When a final Graduate School decision has been made you will receive an email notice to inform you that your decision letter is available to view online. You can view the letter through the ‘Check application status’ section of your Application Supplemental Form (ASF).

[asquare]

What do you think, it's much worse! That's why they want to reduce the class size.

I would like to think that the insane number of applications reflects, apart from unemployment, the fact that (I hope) UMD is now an established, solid top-20 place, and even higher for things like International Finance and Trade (surely top 5, especially finance), Public (especially health, with Duggan in the White House right now, but coming back in the next couple of months), Political Economy, and auctions.

I agree that Maryland is particularly strong in international finance. However, I'm not quite sure about your rankings. Of course there's no such thing as a perfect ranking and there are drawbacks to all of the methodologies. But saying that Maryland is "surely top 5" for international finance seems overly strong to me. IDEAS rankings for international finance have Maryland tied for 12th (8th if we omitted the IMF, the European schools, and counted Harvard and the Kennedy school together and Columbia and econ and finance together), and well outside the top 20 for international trade.

There are certainly some surprising results with the IDEAS rankings, but I'd add a note of caution to your characterization of "surely top 5."

[Saksalainen]

Does anyone know more about the AREC department, like when results will be published and the number of applicants?

[EconDev137]

Are the admissions on gradcafe legit?

[asquare]

Are the admissions on gradcafe legit?

There's a Maryland AREC admit (New admisision and rejection thead 2010 after the outage of the forum) posted on TM, too.

[econslave]

Congrats econlaw on your admit.

[econlaw]

Congrats econlaw on your admit.

Thanks! I think they just sent out fellowship offers. Good luck all of you!

[italos]

I agree that Maryland is particularly strong in international finance. However, I'm not quite sure about your rankings. Of course there's no such thing as a perfect ranking and there are drawbacks to all of the methodologies. But saying that Maryland is "surely top 5" for international finance seems overly strong to me. IDEAS rankings for international finance have Maryland tied for 12th (8th if we omitted the IMF, the European schools, and counted Harvard and the Kennedy school together and Columbia and econ and finance together), and well outside the top 20 for international trade.

There are certainly some surprising results with the IDEAS rankings, but I'd add a note of caution to your characterization of "surely top 5."

I will have to agree with the OP statement.Maryland is really strong in intanrationall finance .They have a lot a good people working there most of them coming from the IMF.For instance Mentoza and Reinhart are among the most well people in the field.Not to forget their international finance centrer