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There are a lot of rankings available on the internet these days (QS, USNews, etc). IS there any way to decide which one is the most reliable one for economics phd rankings?

 

It depends on what your purpose of ranking departments is. As an aspiring PhD student, the best rankings are probably the RePEc rankings for graduate prospects since the rankings here are/should be highly correlated with placement:

 

Economic Institution Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc (Overall)

 

Economic Institution Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc (Last 10 years, probably more representative of recent placement)

 

For overall faculty quality, the RePEc rankings of institutions by fields are good. Similarly, the Tilburg Ranking is good as an overall indicator (you can play around with years to see most recent/longer term trends etc):

 

Tilburg University Economics Ranking - Tilburg University

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It depends on what your purpose of ranking departments is. As an aspiring PhD student, the best rankings are probably the RePEc rankings for graduate prospects since the rankings here are/should be highly correlated with placement:

 

Economic Institution Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc (Overall)

 

Economic Institution Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc (Last 10 years, probably more representative of recent placement)

 

For overall faculty quality, the RePEc rankings of institutions by fields are good. Similarly, the Tilburg Ranking is good as an overall indicator (you can play around with years to see most recent/longer term trends etc):

 

Tilburg University Economics Ranking - Tilburg University

Tilburg's rankings do not even make sense. It is a horrible gauge in measuring department strength. As one can see, it is severely off from USnews and Repecs...

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Tilburg's rankings do not even make sense. It is a horrible gauge in measuring department strength. As one can see, it is severely off from USnews and Repecs...

 

That's incorrect. Tilburg's ranking is more flexible in the sense that you can decide for example which journals you want to count, if you care about Article Influence Scores, etc. It is important to understand that the Tilburg Ranking is not one ranking, but that you can customize your own ranking. If the ranking doesn't make sense to you, than you probably have chosen the wrong ranking specification and should try again.

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