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Collated Economics Rankings.
For anyone who is interested, i was bored at work today so spent a fair bit of time bringing together the last two years Economics league tables from the Times and Guardian. I didn't do anything too sophisticated. I used data from the following catagories;
Teaching quality, Research rating, Spend, Student
taff Ratio, Job Prospects, and Entry Standards. (The data that is most important to *me* when looking at universities)
The Times only supplies data on the teaching quality, reasearch score and entry standards and the Guardian doesn't use research scores so it's not perfect by any means.
I simply added up the scores for each catagory that each university recieved from the two papers over the last two years. There is no weighting of any kind.
The results: (in order)
Cambridge 304.5
Oxford 304.45
LSE 292.95
Warwick 289.6
Durham 280.45
Bath 278.4
UCL 277.6
Manchester 275.6
Nottingham 274.1
Birmigham 272.55
Bristol 272.2
York 269.7
St Andrews 265.5
Edinburugh 257.2
These are the only universities i looked at. I know others such as Southampton perform well in the Times economics tables but i did this for myself and only bothered with what i believe are the top 15 universities in general. This is because overall university reputation is important to *me* as well as the departments score. I wouldn't attend Southampton over Oxford just because it perfroms better in a subject table.
I know that there are only 14 universities there but that's because Imperial makes up the 15th but it doesn't offer economics.
I posted this just because i thought others may be interested. Please remember i did this based upon my views and what's important to me when rating universities. I know my choice of data and method can be pulled apart but i was just interested in a rough overall picture of how the universities i consider to be 'top-tier' have performed accross a few league tables over a few years. To be fair i think that it works out pretty well.
EDIT: I did not use the Guardians teaching score - just the teaching inspection score out of 6 this year and 24 (same as Times) last year
Teaching quality, Research rating, Spend, Student
taff Ratio, Job Prospects, and Entry Standards. (The data that is most important to *me* when looking at universities)The Times only supplies data on the teaching quality, reasearch score and entry standards and the Guardian doesn't use research scores so it's not perfect by any means.
I simply added up the scores for each catagory that each university recieved from the two papers over the last two years. There is no weighting of any kind.
The results: (in order)
Cambridge 304.5
Oxford 304.45
LSE 292.95
Warwick 289.6
Durham 280.45
Bath 278.4
UCL 277.6
Manchester 275.6
Nottingham 274.1
Birmigham 272.55
Bristol 272.2
York 269.7
St Andrews 265.5
Edinburugh 257.2
These are the only universities i looked at. I know others such as Southampton perform well in the Times economics tables but i did this for myself and only bothered with what i believe are the top 15 universities in general. This is because overall university reputation is important to *me* as well as the departments score. I wouldn't attend Southampton over Oxford just because it perfroms better in a subject table.
I know that there are only 14 universities there but that's because Imperial makes up the 15th but it doesn't offer economics.
I posted this just because i thought others may be interested. Please remember i did this based upon my views and what's important to me when rating universities. I know my choice of data and method can be pulled apart but i was just interested in a rough overall picture of how the universities i consider to be 'top-tier' have performed accross a few league tables over a few years. To be fair i think that it works out pretty well.
EDIT: I did not use the Guardians teaching score - just the teaching inspection score out of 6 this year and 24 (same as Times) last year
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I think I would move Oxford down a bit. Actually I would move Oxford down quite a lot... And Nottingham should go up.
I think the table covers all the "elite" Economics departments though.
I think the table covers all the "elite" Economics departments though.
Mysticmin
Doesn't make the department bad 
Actually I've been wanting to have a moan about the lack of interesting degree combinations the 'elite' universities offer.
Actually I've been wanting to have a moan about the lack of interesting degree combinations the 'elite' universities offer.no it doesnt make the department bad - but it just isnt specialized in economics i guess
yea there is a lack of interesting degree in the elite - id love to see football studies at Oxbridge, and ill tell you therell be loads of people applyingTheWolf
no it doesnt make the department bad - but it just isnt specialized in economics i guess yea there is a lack of interesting degree in the elite - id love to see football studies at Oxbridge, and ill tell you therell be loads of people applying
yea there is a lack of interesting degree in the elite - id love to see football studies at Oxbridge, and ill tell you therell be loads of people applying
You what i mean, combinations! Apart from oxford no one offers engineering and management together. And I'd quite like more random combination I'd do one, management would be a welcome break to the toil of an engineering degree.BTW nice avatar wolf
thought you were kokopops then.Mysticmin You what i mean, combinations! Apart from oxford no one offers engineering and management together. And I'd quite like more random combination I'd do one, management would be a welcome break to the toil of an engineering degree.
BTW nice avatar wolf thought you were kokopops then.
You what i mean, combinations! Apart from oxford no one offers engineering and management together. And I'd quite like more random combination I'd do one, management would be a welcome break to the toil of an engineering degree.BTW nice avatar wolf
thought you were kokopops then.yea agreed - the usual traditional ones can get abit boring. I might be choosing to apply for a joint course myself
Mysticmin
nope. Imperial likes to keep its engineering courses purely engineering. Dammit.
really\? because i know some people can like take an option, thats why there is the business school right? alot of the courses are offered for a joint thing with your science degree? Probs its to do with your hardcore engineering course. They dont want to pollute your beautiful engineering minds with rubbish like management
TheWolf
really\? because i know some people can like take an option, thats why there is the business school right? alot of the courses are offered for a joint thing with your science degree? Probs its to do with your hardcore engineering course. They dont want to pollute your beautiful engineering minds with rubbish like management
Or they want to keep the flunk rate as high as it is.
deianra
Hey, well at least it's all good rubbish 
What Joint Honours are you thinkinf of applying for, Wolfie? Does this mean I might see you at E&M?
What Joint Honours are you thinkinf of applying for, Wolfie? Does this mean I might see you at E&M?
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