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Recent rankings of Economics Departments

Two recent rankings of economics departments by publications place the Department of Economics of the University of Toronto in the top 25 departments worldwide (and 1st in Canada).

  Ranking 1 (1995–1999) Ranking 2 (2004–2008)
Rank University, country University, country
1 Harvard U., USA Harvard U., USA
2 U. of Chicago, USA U. of Chicago, USA
3 MIT, USA NYU, USA
4 Northwestern U., USA U. of California, Berkeley, USA
5 U. of Pennsylvania, USA MIT, USA
6 Yale U., USA Stanford U., USA
7 Princeton U., USA U. of Pennsylvania, USA
8 Stanford U., USA (tie) LSE, U.K.
9 U. of California, Berkeley, USA (tie) Northwestern U., USA
10 NYU, USA Columbia U., USA
11 Columbia U., USA Yale U., USA
12 U. of California, San Diego, USA Princeton U., USA
13 U. of Michigan, USA UCLA, USA
14 UCLA, USA (tie) Duke, USA
15 Cornell U., USA (tie) U. of Michigan, USA
16 U. of Texas, Austin, USA U. of Maryland, USA
17 U. of Rochester, USA Cornell U., USA
18 Tilburg U., Netherlands U. of Toronto, Canada
19 U. of Wisconsin, USA U. of Illinois, USA
20 LSE, U.K. U. of Wisconsin, USA
21 U. of Minnesota, USA U. of California, San Diego, USA
22 Boston U., USA Oxford U., UK
23 U. of Toronto, Canada Tilburg U., Netherlands
24 U. of Montreal, Canada U. of Minnesota, USA
25 Brown U., USA U. of British Columbia, Canada

Ranking 1: Based on publications 1995–1999. Source: Table 3 of Pantelis Kalaitzidakis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, and Thanasis Stengos (2003), "Rankings of academic journals and institutions in economics", Journal of the European Economic Association, 1: 1346-1366.

Ranking 2: Based on publications in 68 leading journals, 2004–2008. Source: The Tilburg University top 100 worldwide economics schools research ranking based on research contribution 2004–2008.