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 :s-smilie:

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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Reply 20

TheWolf

deianra

Sigh, are you just scared by the statistics? :rolleyes:

I wanted to apply for Economics and Economic History because I thought I pretty much couldn't handle 100%. Then I realised the LSE gave you outside options, so hurrah! Thought pure Economics there is pretty much hit and miss applications.. :frown:

yep exactly, i cant handle all the statistics, ill go pretty crazy. Id rather not go mad and survive a course i can manage. So are you applying for LSE? :smile:

Reply 21

BazTheMoney

TheWolf

you can take management together with Engineering in the 2nd year at Imperial or something right?

At Oxford there is an Engineering, Economics and Managment course.

Reply 22

Mysticmin

BazTheMoney

At Oxford there is an Engineering, Economics and Managment course.

I know, unfortunately I decided on engineering a bit too late.

Reply 23

Mysticmin

TheWolf

yep exactly, i cant handle all the statistics, ill go pretty crazy. Id rather not go mad and survive a course i can manage. So are you applying for LSE? :smile:

Hmm A level stats sucks. But then GCSE maths sucked, so maybe A level stats will be fun. I disliked maths at GCSE :biggrin:

Reply 24

BazTheMoney

Mysticmin

Is oxford that bad? :confused:

I wouldn't say it's bad, yes there's many areas where major improvement is required, but it's still one of the top 15 in the country. And the fact Economics isn't offeres as a single honours, means that it dosen't have that great an effect.