Untitled - Flyout ranking!

On this page we have information taken about the number of flyouts awarded to students from various schools in the 2008, 2009, and 2010 hiring years. The information is taken from Econjobmarket at bluwiki.

The column, '# flyouts originating here' counts each flyout seperately, regardless of whether the applicant has other flyouts or not. The '# students flownout' counts once for each student, regardless of the number of flyouts the student recieved, and '#' flyouts rank column ranks the former. The average # flyouts per student is just the ratio of the appropriate colmns, and the # top 100 flyouts column is the same as the #flyouts originating here, but only counts when the flyout is too a school in the top 100 as ranked by econphd.net.

You can click on column headers to sort. As always, feedback is welcome, PM untitled at TM, or send me an email as tm(dot)untitled( a t )yahoo(dot)com.

					# flyouts per year
#	School Name	# flyouts originating here	# students flownout	mean # flyouts per student	2008	2009	2010	# top 35 flyouts	# top 100 flyouts	rank by # flyouts	econphd rank
1	MIT	223	53	4.208	53	97	73	160	196	1	3
2	Harvard	213	74	2.878	71	93	49	153	183	2	1
3	Northwestern	156	41	3.805	84	25	47	97	131	3	7
4	Berkeley	144	53	2.717	63	34	47	74	104	4	4
5	Yale	127	41	3.098	22	63	42	83	110	5	9
6	Chicago	120	47	2.553	34	30	56	55	85	6	2
7	NYU	118	43	2.744	22	68	28	70	95	7	10
8	U Minnesota	110	44	2.500	40	43	27	32	67	8	29
9	Stanford	107	43	2.488	44	22	41	69	88	9	6
10	Princeton	106	40	2.650	27	64	15	66	96	10	5
11	California - Los Angeles	86	25	3.440	53	8	25	32	56	11	11
12	London School of Economics	71	26	2.731	19	30	22	33	50	12	12
13	Pennsylvania	70	28	2.500	15	10	45	13	44	13	8
14	Columbia	69	29	2.379	11	19	39	22	40	14	13
15	Duke U	68	27	2.519	44	12	12	34	58	15	35
16	Michigan	51	24	2.125	20	22	9	25	41	16	16
17	Boston U	45	22	2.045	19	22	4	9	23	17	26
18	Wisconsin	37	16	2.313	13	9	15	11	20	18	14
19	Maryland	37	16	2.313	13	9	15	12	21	19	17
20	Brown U	36	11	3.273	12	9	15	16	24	20	27
21	Rochester	34	20	1.700	10	11	13	8	24	21	22
22	U Toronto	33	9	3.667	23	2	8	2	6	22	36
23	U California - San Diego	32	16	2.000	6	3	23	12	20	23	21
24	University College London	30	13	2.308	12	7	11	9	22	24	47
25	Penn State U	27	14	1.929	4	10	13	14	21	25	38
26	U British Columbia	25	16	1.563	17	6	2	3	9	26	20
27	Texas	25	13	1.923	10	7	8	6	11	27	19
28	U Iowa	25	12	2.083	16	3	6	10	16	28	72
29	Cornell	25	12	2.083	20	1	4	4	9	29	15
30	Johns Hopkins	25	14	1.786	9	12	4	3	9	30	51
31	Oxford U	22	11	2.000	10	10	2	11	16	31	31
32	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	21	9	2.333	12	4	5	7	14	32	43
33	European U Institute	20	15	1.333	10	8	2	2	8	33	45
34	Queen's U	19	11	1.727	12	4	3	1	7	34	61
35	Wharton at Pennsylvania	19	7	2.714	2	7	10	13	16	35	999
36	Toulouse I	18	10	1.800	1	12	5	3	9	36	18
37	CEMFI	17	7	2.429		8	9	3	7	37	999
38	Indiana	16	10	1.600	5	3	8	3	8	38	49
39	Virginia	16	12	1.333	8	7	1	4	10	39	53
40	U Pompeu Fabra	16	12	1.333	8	6	2	3	6	40	66
41	Boston College	15	9	1.667	3	4	8	0	1	41	42
42	Carnegie Mellon U	15	9	1.667	4	11		8	9	42	40
43	Free U Brussels (U Libre)	14	5	2.800		6	8	2	8	43	134
44	U Cambridge	14	7	2.000	10	1	3	3	6	44	39
45	U Washington	14	10	1.400	8	3	3	0	5	45	60
46	Tinbergen	12	4	3.000	6	3	3	6	9	46	999
47	U Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne)	12	4	3.000	1		11	3	6	47	93
48	Stockholm U	12	6	2.000	4	4	4	6	9	48	59
49	Syracuse U	11	5	2.200	10	1		0	3	49	82
50	U Carlos III Madrid	11	7	1.571	8		3	1	3	50	46
51	U Bonnn	10	6	1.667	2	5	3	3	9	51	81
52	U Pittsburgh	9	6	1.500	5		4	2	5	52	70
53	U Mannheim	9	4	2.250		5	4	4	7	53	94
54	Washington U St Louis	9	8	1.125	4	1	4	0	2	54	63
55	Illinois	9	5	1.800	2	6	1	5	7	55	25
56	Vanderbilt	9	7	1.286	3	6		0	5	56	54
57	Ohio State	9	8	1.125	3	1	5	2	2	57	23
58	Purdue U	8	6	1.333	4	2	2	1	1	58	67
59	U California - Davis	7	6	1.167	2	2	3	1	1	59	28
60	U Zurich	7	4	1.750			7	1	3	60	99
61	Georgetown	7	4	1.750	5		2	2	4	61	55
62	U Alicante	6	2	3.000	6			0	3	62	132
63	London Business School	6	4	1.500		5	1	2	2	63	105
64	Arizona	6	5	1.200	1	3	2	3	5	64	57
65	Emory U	6	6	1.000	2	2	2	3	4	65	125
66	Texas A&M	5	2	2.500	3	2		0	0	66	44
67	U Montreal	5	5	1.000	3	2		0	3	67	64
68	Dartmouth	5	5	1.000	4	1		4	5	68	58
69	Michigan State U	5	3	1.667	3	2		1	2	69	33
70	Arizona State	5	4	1.250	1		4	0	3	70	56
71	Rice U	5	2	2.500	5			0	2	71	75
72	U Western Ontario	5	1	5.000	5			0	1	72	103
73	U Bocconi	4	4	1.000	1	1	2	0	2	73	101
74	U California - Berkeley AREC	4	2	2.000	4			2	3	74	999
75	U Colorado - Boulder	4	4	1.000	2	1	1	1	1	75	87
76	Iowa State U	4	3	1.333	3	1		1	1	76	62
77	Tilburg U	4	3	1.333	3		1	2	4	77	24
78	U North Carolina	4	4	1.000		1	3	0	2	78	41
79	U California - Santa Barbara	4	3	1.333	1	1	2	2	2	79	83
80	U Florida	4	3	1.333	1	3		0	2	80	78
81	U Oslo	3	3	1.000			3	0	2	81	102
82	U Southern California	3	3	1.000	2	1		0	1	82	32
83	U Oregon	3	3	1.000	1	1	1	0	1	83	118
84	U California - Santa Cruz	3	3	1.000	2		1	2	2	84	98
85	Warwick U	3	3	1.000		3		1	2	85	34
86	Uppsala U	3	2	1.500			3	2	3	86	140
87	U Autonoma Barcelona	2	2	1.000	1		1	0	0	87	79
88	Texas - Dallas	2	1	2.000		2		1	1	88	999
89	McGill U	2	2	1.000	2			0	0	89	131
90	Clemson	2	2	1.000	1		1	0	1	90	999
91	U California - Irvine	2	2	1.000	2			0	0	91	77
92	Rutgers	2	2	1.000	1		1	0	0	92	52
93	U New Mexico	2	2	1.000	1		1	1	2	93	999
94	Virginia Tech	1	1	1.000		1		1	1	94	95
95	Florida State	1	1	1.000			1	1	1	95	999
96	U Notre Dame	1	1	1.000		1		0	0	96	114
97	Georgia State U	1	1	1.000			1	1	1	97	129
98	Maastricht U	1	1	1.000	1			0	0	98	88
99	U Copenhagen	1	1	1.000			1	1	1	99	74
100	Essex	1	1	1.000			1	0	1	100	48
101	U Georgia	1	1	1.000	1			0	0	101	111
102	U Vienna	1	1	1.000			1	0	1	102	100
103	Simon Fraser U	1	1	1.000		1		0	0	103	116
104	U Connecticut	1	1	1.000	1			0	0	104	999
	Total				1022	916	878

These need to be handled with care, I cannot stress how much. Really, this is a pet project of a young graduate student who is basically anonymous, and little attention has been paid to absolute accuracy. Rankings are not, for instance, a good way to judge how good a phd program is as a fit to the interests of a young economist about to start a graduate career. Beyond that, there are many methodological and philosophical issues that are dealt with differently at different times (and hardly dealt with at all in the table above). For comparison and reference, here is a list of other program rankings:

Year Published	Author(s)	Title	Most recent year	Top Rated Cluster	Comments
2010	US News and World Report	Rankings: Economics	2009	Harvard MIT Princeton Chicago	Annual ranking by survey
2010	Crus, Jose M. B. (Valencia)	Economic Institution Rankings at IDEAS	2010	Harvard	Overall citation index (all time?) based on material catalogued in RePEc, authors must be registed. Therefore, I think it is a dumb ranking. Harvard has twice the score of the institute in second (Chicago).
2008	Amir, Rabah (Arizona) Knauff, Malgorzata (Warsaw)	Ranking Economics Departments Worldwide on the Basis of PhD Placement	2006	MIT Harvard	Includes ranking since 1990, based on placement into 1 of 58 schools chosen by reciprical placing of students
2004 (unpublished)	Perry, Gregory M. (Oregon State)	Ranking M.S. and Ph.D. Programs in Agricultural Economics � Spring 2004	2004	Berkeley Davis Maryland Iowa State	ARE rankings and subrankings based on annual survey results since 1993
2003	Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis (Crete) Mamuneas, Theofanis P. (Leicester/Cyprus) Stengos, Thanasis (Guelph)	Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics	2004	Harvard Chicago MIT Northwestern	Journal rankings used as weights for institution rankings
2006	Berger, Mark C. and Scott, Frank A. (both at Kentucky)	Changes in U.S. and Southern Economics Department Rankings over Time	1988	Chicago MIT Harvard	Page count in 3 journals (AER, JPE, Econometrics) concentrating on chang between 1978 and 1988.
2003	Coupe, Tom (Kyiv)	Tom Coupe's ranking page	2000	Harvard Chicago	Citations and Publication rankings from 1990-2000.
2003	Lubrano et al. (GREQAM and CORE)	Ranking Economics Departments in Europe: A statistical approach	2000	LSE Tilburg	Rankings in Europe with comparison to California from 1991-2000.
2000	Collins, Jerry (Lincoln Memorial) Cox, Richard (Tennessee) Stango, Victor (Tennessee)	The publishing of recent economics Ph.D. recipients	1992	MIT Princeton Northwestern Chicago	Weighted pages,1987-92 top 5 and top 36 journals
1982	Graves, Philip E. (Colorado) Marchand, James A. (Cal State-Long Beach) Thompson, Randall (Colorado)	Economics Department Rankings Reseach Incentives, Constraints, and Efficiency	1978	Chicago Harvard Stanford	AER adjusted pages, includes comparisons of rankings going back to the 1950s
1998	Dusansky, Richard Vernon, Clayton J. (Texas)	Rankings of U.S. Economics Departments	1994	Princeton Harvard MIT Penn	AER adjusted pages times impact factor, 8 journals from 1990-1994
1996	Scott, Loren C Mitias, Peter M (LSU)	Trends in Rankings of Economics Departments in the U.S.: An Update	1993	Harvard Chicago Penn	Adjusted pages from 1984-1993

Here is a list of rankings of economic journals:

Year Published Author(s) Title Most
recent
year Top Rated Cluster Comments
2008 (unpublished) Sabatini, Fabio
(Siena) Ranking of academic journals in Economics 2004 JPE
JEL
QJE ISI Impact Factor, Bergstrom Lab Eigenfactor, and RePEc H Index
2009 (working paper) Wall, Howard J.
(Fed of St.Louis) Journal Rankings in Economics: Handle with Care 2004 QJE
AER
Econometrics
JPE Median Citations
2003 Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis
(Crete)
Mamuneas, Theofanis P.
(Leicester/Cyprus)
Stengos, Thanasis
(Guelph) Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics 2004 AER
Econometrica
JPE Journal rankings used as weights for institution rankings
2009 Engemann, Kristie M.
Wall, Howard J.
(Fed Band of St. Louis) A Journal Ranking for the Ambitious Economist 2004 AER
Econometrica
JPE Journal rankings used as weights for institution rankings
2005 Kodrzycki, Yolanda K.
Yu, Pingkang David
(Fed Band of Boston) New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals 2003 AER
QJE
Econometrica
JPE Based on citations within and not within economics

Year Published	Author(s)	Title	Most recent year	Top Rated Cluster	Comments
2008 (unpublished)	Sabatini, Fabio (Siena)	Ranking of academic journals in Economics	2004	JPE JEL QJE	ISI Impact Factor, Bergstrom Lab Eigenfactor, and RePEc H Index
2009 (working paper)	Wall, Howard J. (Fed of St.Louis)	Journal Rankings in Economics: Handle with Care	2004	QJE AER Econometrics JPE	Median Citations
2003	Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis (Crete) Mamuneas, Theofanis P. (Leicester/Cyprus) Stengos, Thanasis (Guelph)	Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics	2004	AER Econometrica JPE	Journal rankings used as weights for institution rankings
2009	Engemann, Kristie M. Wall, Howard J. (Fed Band of St. Louis)	A Journal Ranking for the Ambitious Economist	2004	AER Econometrica JPE	Journal rankings used as weights for institution rankings
2005	Kodrzycki, Yolanda K. Yu, Pingkang David (Fed Band of Boston)	New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals	2003	AER QJE Econometrica JPE	Based on citations within and not within economics