Rabah Amir (University of Arizona, Eller College of Management) & Malgorzata Knauff (Warsaw School of Economics) have published Ranking Economics Departments Worldwide on the Basis of PhD Placement (2005):
1. Harvard
2. MIT
3. Stanford
4. Princeton
5. Chicago
6. Berkeley
7. Yale
8. Northwestern
9. Oxford
10. LSE
11. Minnesota
12. UPenn
13. Michigan
14. Rochester
15. Penn State
16. Cambridge
17. Columbia
18. UCLA
19. Wisconsin
20. Johns Hopkins
21. Maryland
22. EHESS - Paris
23. Caltech
24. Duke
25. Carnegie Mellon
26. U Paris I
27. Brown
28. UCSD
29. Cornell
30. UCL
31. Toulouse
32. Boston University
33. Virginia
34. UIUC
35. U Aarhus
36. Purdue
37. NYU
38. Pittsburgh
39. Pompeu Fabra
40. Western Ontario
41. U Louvain/CORE
42. UBC
43. ANU
44. U Washington
45. Queen's
46. U Paris 9
47. U Iowa
48. European U Institute
49. Rice
50. SUNY Stony Brook
51. Toronto
52. U Carlos III - Madrid
53. U Autonoma - Barcelona
54. UC Davis
Source: http://www.ires.ucl.ac.be/DP/IRES_DP/2005-41.pdf
1. Harvard
2. MIT
3. Stanford
4. Princeton
5. Chicago
6. Berkeley
7. Yale
8. Northwestern
9. Oxford
10. LSE
11. Minnesota
12. UPenn
13. Michigan
14. Rochester
15. Penn State
16. Cambridge
17. Columbia
18. UCLA
19. Wisconsin
20. Johns Hopkins
21. Maryland
22. EHESS - Paris
23. Caltech
24. Duke
25. Carnegie Mellon
26. U Paris I
27. Brown
28. UCSD
29. Cornell
30. UCL
31. Toulouse
32. Boston University
33. Virginia
34. UIUC
35. U Aarhus
36. Purdue
37. NYU
38. Pittsburgh
39. Pompeu Fabra
40. Western Ontario
41. U Louvain/CORE
42. UBC
43. ANU
44. U Washington
45. Queen's
46. U Paris 9
47. U Iowa
48. European U Institute
49. Rice
50. SUNY Stony Brook
51. Toronto
52. U Carlos III - Madrid
53. U Autonoma - Barcelona
54. UC Davis
Source: http://www.ires.ucl.ac.be/DP/IRES_DP/2005-41.pdf
