newguyfromindia Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayes Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 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? Standard reference point is USNEWS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newguyfromindia Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Okay, that helps! Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coloradoecon Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 RePEc is good as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newguyfromindia Posted June 20, 2020 Author Share Posted June 20, 2020 I would like the ranking which would correspond the most to the competitiveness in getting into the particular college. Eg, based on that ranking, getting into a top 30 would be more difficult than a top 40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahududu Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 That is not always the case but usually yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gentvenus Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Standard reference point is USNEWS May I ask why is this the standard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
startz Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 US News is a reputational survey. They ask department chairs and directors of graduate programs to rate all department's PhD programs. The survey is re-run about every four years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlc27 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayes Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidschindler Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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