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Studying economics at one of the US universities will open the way to a career as a quality specialist in many areas of human activity. To obtain an economic education, it is necessary to have mathematical abilities and a good mathematical base, regardless of the chosen narrow specialty.
Economics, in addition to studying economic processes, is also engaged in forecasting economic situations. In this she is helped by econometrics - a scientific discipline that deals with the qualitative and quantitative study of economic relationships using mathematical methods. This discipline related to data processing originated at the intersection of other classical sciences:
- Mathematicians
- Informatics
- Statisticians
- Economics.
Students who choose this direction study:
- Analysis of statistics of socio-economic processes
- Analysis of financial and accounting statements of organizations
- Economic data processing tools
- Standard theoretical and econometric models.
Graduates with the specialty "Econometrics" can choose a profession:
- Business Analyst for Process Optimization
- Macroeconomist
- Corporate Risk Specialist (Chief Economist)
- Market Risk Management Specialist
- Economist-analyst.
Universities in the United States also offer training in a dual program - economics and econometrics (double degree). Graduates with a diploma in economics are in demand:
- In banking and lending
- In journalism
- In the tax authorities
- In politics
- In creating your own business
- In insurance organizations
- In the field of media and communications
- In the economic departments and services of organizations.
Best economics & econometrics universities in USA 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 3 | Stanford University |
| 4 | University of Chicago |
| 5 | Princeton University |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 7 | Yale University |
| 8 | Columbia University |
| 9 | New York University (NYU) |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 11 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 12 | Northwestern University |
| 13 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 14 | Boston University |
| 15 | Cornell University |
| 16 | Duke University |
| 17 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 18 | Brown University |
| 19 | University of Minnesota (System) |
| 20 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 21 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 22 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 23 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 24 | University of California, Davis |
| 25 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 26 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 28 | University of Southern California |
| 29 | Texas A&M University |
| 30 | Michigan State University |
| 31 | Dartmouth College |
| 32 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 33 | Boston College |
| 34 | Georgetown University |
| 35 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 36 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 37 | The Ohio State University |
| 38 | Purdue University |
| 39 | University of Rochester |
| 40 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 41 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 42 | University of Washington |
| 43 | University of Virginia |
| 44 | Arizona State University |
| 45 | George Washington University |
| 46 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) |
| 47 | Emory University |
| 48 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 49 | Rice University |
| 50 | Rutgers University鈥揘ew Brunswick |
