Tripleg 发表于 2024-12-19 07:13
[md]A Ph.D. in economics from a top 30-40 school in North America promises far more career avenues t ...
This is quite misinformed and misleading. LBS MKT regularly placed students at places like UCL and Bocconi. All of the top 30 econ PhD programs are not even close.
zzmypster 发表于 2024-12-19 23:10
This is quite misinformed and misleading. LBS MKT regularly placed students at places like UCL and ...
Agreed! The placement of Econ PhD and predoc become much worse after covid for unknown reason.
Here is the placement of LBS PhD: https://assets.london.edu/hxo16fanegqh/5JqRfG9ZRnOWpygoPwGo85/9f21c3cf4d4b244afee851e5caeecc58/web-placement-list-2012---2023.pdf
Here is the placement of Boston Univ Econ PhD (I would say top 20-30 level?): https://www.bu.edu/econ/academics/phd/recent-phd-placements/
Here is the placement of USC Econ PhD (top 30-40?): https://dornsife.usc.edu/econ/doctoral/placements/
The median placement of LBS PhD, whatever track, is much better than BU Econ PhD and USC Econ PhD.
Tripleg 发表于 2024-12-21 00:49
[md]Okay. I do not think I was providing misinformation, though. As for me, a research-based Economi ...
"BU and USC Econ departments rank among the top 50"???
What ranking system are you even using???
Also when a young scholar applies for top PhD business programs, I believe it is safe to assume they want to stay in academia as a goal after graduation instead of targeting industry. Otherwise, they could easily get a CS degree and earn way more money than Econ in industry.