He is an expert on international economics and policy analysis. On Oscar night, even Southern Californians with no ties to the entertainment industry cluster round the TV to check on their favorite films and actors. We all want to know who's on top. The prize for graduate education is presented by the most comprehensive popular ranking of graduate research and teaching programs in the US, U.S. News and World Report 's annual survey, America's Best Graduate Schools . The rankings are based on a survey of opinions of academic experts.
Faculty everywhere are of course above such things.
They say that they pay no attention. This year's report shows the very top ranked departments of economics are at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Better still, UCSD Ph.D.'s serve on the faculty at Princeton and Chicago, and on the faculty of eleven of the top 25 departments. The UCSD faculty in time series econometrics has long been recognized among economists, and the economic theory group is well known. Now our applied faculty in labor economics and applied macroeconomics is becoming increasingly prominent.