Top 5 universities for Economics (excluding Oxbridge)

what is the full name???

For a start I am of the opinion that Cambridge and LSE are more or less equivalent for Economics and many would say LSE is better (if only because they attract some bloody intelligent foreign students)
Oxford is nowhere for Economics.

For third I would say Warwick and UCL equal. There is very little between them. Both have 5* research ratings and good teaching stats. I am at Warwick studying Economics and I would say at least 1/3 of the year got internships with top investment banks. We also have loads of ex Oxbridge lecturers with BIG reputations. (end of shameless plug of my university)

After that I would say Nottingham.

Bristol really doesn't have a very good reputation for Economics and neither has York. Durham is better than one would think as although the research department is rubbish and they have very few big names, the teaching is excellent.

uni of lesta is 15th for economics is it considered as a "good" uni for an average student?

Unless you have a Chemistry teacher like mine who refuses to predict As unless you get at least 20 marks over the boundary. Pah.

This is all slightly off-key. To begin with it seems to be terribly parochial and based on short-term league tables. There is no consideration of the long term impact these places have or have not made. Only LSE and UCL here have made any big real world impact. Bath, York and Nottingham owe their prominence mainly to domestic league tables.

In any caser the premiss is all wrong: it should really be: 'where is the best place outside LSE and Cambridge?' (This is on the basis of historical performance, real world impact and national as well as international reatings, over many years, not just ten..)

ucl 1st and bath so high might be the controversial thing - dunno about bath, but i do rate ucl's economic department very highly,not better than lse tho i guess

Times rating's dodgy, but not as dodgy as the guardian's... Hmm there should be an employer's rating table!!! That would be useful, anyone know where I can find one?

ahh ive got the employer's table dont understand it at all UMIST is ranked 2nd and lse is ranked 23rd

Ah...er...hmm, maybe it's not so useful then lol. Anyway if you get a first from a reputable uni you're set up for life apparently.

yea its very strange lse ranked 23rd, ucl 21st, york 29th..etc anyways here is the University rankings: the table of tables, very useful - no need to look up all the different tables ever again

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/graphics/2003/06/27/unibigpic.jpg

That is ONE dodgy table, its almost convincing me to trot off to warwick instead. i suspect we need to figure out how on earth they compiled the employers table.

i think that at lse and ucl there are alot of strange subjects eg scandanavian subjects which maybe on average make them less employable? But surely other universities have strange subjects like that

UCL has considerably a lot more than LSE: just look through their prospectus, i don't know how the hell those departments get funding.

i must say speech sciences and speech communication sounds irresistible