no job placement outcome listed

[needeconhelp]

Hello everyone,

I am a prospective economics graduate student. I have been trying to find job placement outcome of certain universities for the last few years. I am aware that sometimes they do not post them and it is only available to admitted students. AND they are not allowed to post them online. Is it possible that someone can compare these schools with a school which has its outcome available (eg. YALE)?

I could not find the outcomes of Princeton, MIT, Chicago, Columbia, Northwestern and NYU. Can anyone please help?

Also, if you want to let me know if the outcome is available somewhere,that would be just perfect.

Thank you very much for your help.

[abababba]

Yale publishes its placements because its probably better of even with schools that are ranked higher. Only MIT and Harvard consistently place better than Yale. Princeton, Berkeley and Stanford often do worse, especially recently, but sometimes better.

[econphilomath]

Originally Posted by needeconhelp

I could not find the outcomes of Princeton, MIT, Chicago, Columbia, Northwestern and NYU. Can anyone please help?

Dude, your optimizing on a flat surface....all those universities are great and have good placement probably in the order you mentioned them. My point is given the random nature of the admissions process, if your considering all of these you should just apply to all of them.

But I can at least give you a data point: Chicago placed a guy I know in Northwestern.

[Antichron]

There definitely isn't a publicly available list for MIT, but here is a list of the recent graduates and their thesis titles. A little time spent googling can probably yield their placements:

MIT Department of Economics : About The Deparment : Recent PhD Theses

Good luck with applications!

[needeconhelp]

thank you abababba and econphilomath very much.

Originally Posted by econphilomath

Dude, your optimizing on a flat surface....all those universities are great and have good placement probably in the order you mentioned them. My point is given the random nature of the admissions process, if your considering all of these you should just apply to all of them.

Given the amoutn of effort, $ and courage required to apply to all these place, I don't think i can apply to all of them. I have to choose a few among these schools.

I am think about applying to 6-7 out of top-10 schools. here is my profile:http://www.urch.com/forums/phd-econo...le-please.html (Evaluate profile please).

so far, yale, stanford, and Berkley are on my list. I have place for 3-4 more.

[asquare]

There is incomplete information on flyouts and offers on this wiki. Some names link back to websites, and for others, Google will tell you where the candidates come from.

[needeconhelp]

anyone knows is placement outcome of U. Mich at ann harbor available?

[econphilomath]

Originally Posted by needeconhelp

anyone knows is placement outcome of U. Mich at ann harbor available?

A guy in Berkeley. Theres a previous post somewhere....

[econphilomath]

What about Harvard? They have a couple of people doing education economics and some other related applied work? MIT has the poverty action lab which works on impact evaluation and experimental design.

Haven't heard much about the other universities you mentioned regarding your interests. I still think that regarding placements, once your at the top ranked schools it doesn't really matter on the margin.

Maybe you should repost your profile at the new roll call post so we can organize a thread with every TMer whos applying.

[asquare]

You can download a list of Michigan's placements through 2004 or so here. The list doesn't include recent years; last year was an especially good year for Michigan with Greg Lewis going to Harvard, Pat Kline to Yale, and Yuriy Gorodnochenko to Berkeley. Other placements last year included U of Toronto, William and Mary, and a post doc at Stanford.