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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
99th 95th 90th 85th 80th 75th 70th 60th 50th
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

Based on rankings released publicaly by QS Top Universities. Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds (www.topuniversities.com). Copyright © 2004-2022 QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.