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Where are you gonna do your phd ?

I just got an offer from Nottingham Msc Economics. I was thinking about going to essex. Essex's program is cheaper 10.95K compared to Nottingham's 12.4K. What do you guys think 1.45K is worth it ? Also how will be my chanced after Nottingham? Will I have a shot in securing a place in PhD programs like SSE, SU, Innsburg, Linz, Tilburg, Zurich, Bonn and Mannheim ? (They are all basically free) (I am interested in behavioral economics and time series analysis)

I am not sure about bristol

I would like to have more information regarding uk universities ?

That is exactly my concern too.. If I knew by hard work I can get a full scholarship in the form of studentship for phd then I will go to uea but if I dont get a scholarship then it will be much more harder to get into some practically free or funded phd programs in europe and US... I will most probably follow your track dracular :).. It is just tough people counting on you investing money on you and you have to do really good in msc then hope to get into a good program...

OK so I may get a scholarship paying half the tuition from east of anglia. I know it is not the best place to study economics but it is top ten in experimental economics and I am depply interested in the field. I am wondering if I have a really succesful Msc year then I can try to get the full scholarship award for their phd... Anyone ?

yea I second convoluted UCL is the place to go for microeconometrics...

go with warwick for sure

don't count on repec so heavily.. especially the overall ratings.. you should check out tilburg ratings:https://econtop.uvt.nl/rankinglist.php Here is my two cents for you regarding SSE and Stockholm University. Some of the subject rankings from repec hope this helps a bit... [TABLE=width: 276] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]SSE[/TD] [TD]Stockholm[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Macro[/TD] [TD=align: right]86[/TD] [TD=align: right]32[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Micro[/TD] [TD=align: right]62[/TD] [TD=align: right]162[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Econometrics[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Growth[/TD] [TD=align: right]113[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Development[/TD] [TD=align: right]149[/TD] [TD=align: right]30[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Game Theory[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]15[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Behavioral[/TD] [TD=align: right]25[/TD] [TD=align: right]17[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Experimental[/TD] [TD=align: right]26[/TD] [TD=align: right]58[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Evolutionary[/TD] [TD=align: right]15[/TD] [TD=align: right]26[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Computational[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]108[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Happiness[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Phil&His[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]25[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Dynamic General Eq.[/TD] [TD=align: right]108[/TD] [TD=align: right]20[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Unemployment, Ineq.[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]26[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Monetary Econ[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]16[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Neuroeconomics[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Prospect Theory[/TD] [TD=align: right]96[/TD] [TD=align: right]80[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Time Series[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Discrete Choice Models[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Collective Decision Making[/TD] [TD=align: right]16[/TD] [TD=align: right]20[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Labor[/TD] [TD=align: right]232[/TD] [TD=align: right]37[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

Darcular thanks a lot for your priceless answer. Higly appreciated! Do you mind if I PM you regarding essex once I finalize my decision ? Also why did you not want to continue you phd in essex?

Are we talking about UK or US ?

Hi everyone, I hope I am posting in the right place (this is my first post). I have looked all around the forum, analized all the misleading rankings but I have yet to decide which school to go to for econ. I have my interest in experimental economics and ACE though I don't want to base my decision on them cause interests may change (my interests: microeconomics, game theory, prospect theory, choice theory, time series analysis, experimental, agent based computational economics).. I am planning on doing a PhD in economics afterwards. I am not worried about finding a job after my PhD degree. (I have this scholarship from my goverment where they cover everything but in return I have to be an academician in the university they assign me to.. not as bad as it sounds..) All I want to get is a really good education in economics that enables me to have the appropriate skills to become a good academician (sounded like a lame SoP sentence :) ). Any way so I have an offer for Msc. in Economics from Southampton, Essex, Sussex and East Anglia. I am still waiting for an answer from nottingham and bristol. To be frank I feel like Nottingham would be a better choice but I don't know if they'll offer me a place. I am considering East Anglia because of their good reputation in experimental economics yet I am not sure if it is worth it. Sussex is a beautiful university but I don't think they offer a math intensive econ education they are as we all know it specialized in developement and have amazingly misleadingly good subject rankings in ideas repec (or maybe I am biased and they indeed have a really good program. I don't wanna offend anyone with my ignorance). Okay so the big question is which one to chose Southampton or Essex ? Essex offers a 3+1 program so I feel it is easier to get into its phd. Also in all the rankings I have checked (rae, ideas repec, tcoupe, econphd) Essex is strictly better. Also I am a history of art fan and one of Constable's great painting depicts a spot inside Essex's campus. Also Essex offers a full term math intensive class while southampton only offers a 2 weeks long review class in math. Essex do have programs relating to agent based economics yet I am not really convinced that I can benefiT in any sense from their faculty (any one any ideas on this ?) and I am not sure Southampton is any different in this regard. Any way I say I should go with Essex. But than there is the possiblity of getting an offer from Bristol. Between Bristol and Essex I really don't know which one to pick. Bristol seems to have a better reputation and have more super star academicians... There is also the possiblity of applying to a better university for phd perhaps US than based on what I've read bristol is better. In addition to all this non-sense I am also applying to Bonn and Mannheim. If ever I manage to have an offer from one of the two I will just go to germany... (is it harder to get into these schools than essex, southampton or bristol ?) I will put my excel sheet regarding the subject rankings collected from ideas repec. It may also help other lost souls like me to decide. Any one interested in giving their 2 cents ? here is mine.. 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