U of T : Economics : Recent rankings of Economics Departments

Recent rankings of Economics Departments

Faculty publications ranking

A recent ranking* of economics departments by publications in economics journals places the University of Toronto in the top 20 departments worldwide (and 1st in Canada).

Rank	University
1	University of Chicago, USA
2	Harvard University, USA
3	Stanford University, USA
4	LSE, UK
5	MIT, USA
6	University of California, Berkeley, USA
7	University of Pennsylvania, USA
8	Columbia University, USA
9	Northwestern University, USA
10	Princeton University, USA
11	New York University, USA
12	Yale University, USA
13	University of Oxford, UK
14	University of Warwick, UK
15	University College London, UK
16	Monash University, AU
17	University of Michigan, USA
18	Duke University, USA
19	University of Toronto, Canada
20	Bocconi University, ITA

*Source: The Tilburg University Top 100 Worldwide Economics Schools Research Ranking based on research contribution 2016–2020.

Ranking of PhD graduates' publication records

A 2014 ranking of the publication records in economics journals of PhD graduates places the University of Toronto in the top 15 departments in the US and Canada. The ranking given in the column headed xth is constructed as follows. For each institution, the publication records of all PhD graduates are ordered and the record at the xth percentile is selected; the institutions are ranked by these selected publication records. Thus, for example, the median (50th percentile) publication record among PhD graduates of Princeton is better than the median publication record among graduates of all other institutions; the median publication record among PhD graduates of the University of Toronto is ranked 9th among all institutions.

The rows of the table are ordered by the average ranking.

University, country	Ranking at percentile of class									Average ranking
University, country	99th	95th	90th	85th	80th	75th	70th	60th	50th	Average ranking
Princeton, USA	3	3	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1.9
MIT, USA	1	1	2	1	3	3	4	6	6	3
Rochester, USA	10	5	3	3	1	1	1	2	3	3.2
Harvard, USA	2	2	4	4	5	8	6	8	8	5.2
UC San Diego, USA	18	9	6	6	4	4	5	3	2	6.3
Northwestern, USA	9	6	7	5	7	6	7	7	7	6.8
Carnegie Mellon, USA	15	12	11	7	6	5	3	5	5	7.7
Yale, USA	4	4	5	8	8	9	11	10	11	7.8
Stanford, USA	6	10	9	10	11	11	9	9	10	9.4
UBC, Canada	24	16	13	12	9	7	8	4	4	10.8
U. of Toronto, Canada	8	7	12	11	13	14	13	11	9	10.9 (tie)
Chicago, USA	12	8	8	9	10	10	12	12	17	10.9 (tie)
U Penn, USA	7	11	10	13	12	12	10	13	14	11.3
Minnesota, USA	13	13	14	15	14	13	14	16	18	14.4
UC Berkeley, USA	17	15	17	16	17	16	16	15	13	15.8
Duke, USA	25	17	16	14	15	15	15	14	12	15.9
Columbia, USA	11	14	15	17	19	18	18	22	20	17.1
Wisconsin, Madison, USA	16	18	18	18	16	17	17	17	19	17.3
UC Davis, USA	20	22	21	20	22	20	20	18	16	19.9
Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA	21	21	20	19	18	19	21	20	23	20.2
UCLA, USA	14	19	19	21	20	22	22	21	26	20.4 (tie)
Cornell, USA	22	23	22	22	21	21	19	19	15	20.4 (tie)
Penn State, USA	29	24	24	24	23	23	25	23	22	24.1
NYU, USA	19	20	23	23	24	26	26	27	30	24.2
Maryland, USA	26	29	25	25	25	24	23	25	21	24.8
U Southern California, USA	5	30	29	27	31	28	28	28	25	25.7
U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA	28	28	26	26	26	25	24	26	24	25.9
Boston U, USA	23	26	28	28	28	30	29	30	29	27.9
Ohio State U, USA	31	27	30	29	29	27	27	24	28	28
U Texas, Austin, USA	30	25	27	31	27	29	31	31	27	28.7

Based on publications 1985–2006 of all PhD graduates 1986–2000. Source: Computed from Table 2 of John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder (2014), "The Research Productivity of New PhDs in Economics: The Surprisingly High Non-Success of the Successful", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(3): 205–216.

The University of Toronto is ranked #18 globally and #1 in Canada. For more details, please refer to the SGS university rankings site.

QS World University Rankings

The department of Economics is ranked #1 in Canada and #18 in the world as ranked by QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 in the subject areas of Economics & Econometrics

Year	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
World Ranking	18	20	22	24	21	22

Last updated on March 29, 2023

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Faculty publications ranking

Ranking of PhD graduates' publication records

QS World University Rankings