You can get rankings from either US News and World Report or from BusinessWeek. See the links below.

My personal rankings are:

1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

2. University of Chicago

3. Stanford University

4. MIT (Sloan)

5. Northwestern University (Kellogg)

6. Duke University (Fuqua)

7. Dartmouth University (Tuck)

8. Harvard University

9. University of California at Berkeley (Haas)

10. Columbia University

Many of these schools do not have undergraduate programs. For undergrads, I would rank them:

1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

2. MIT (Sloan)

3. University of California at Berkeley (Haas)

4. University of Michigan (Ross)

5. University of Virginia (Ross)

Rounding out the top ten — in no particular order — are NYU (Stern), University of Maryland, University of Texas, Villanova University and UCLA.

I’m not sure why you would think that econ is a more practical major to have. i would assume it’s b/c you are aware of the decline of the us economy, therefore believe that more/better jobs may be available in the future. however, every company uses marketing whether they have a marketing dept or not. marketing is a core function of every business. without it, no one would know what products are available for consumption by consumers. no matter what happens to the economy, companies are still going to have to push their products on consumers. that’s where the marketer comes in. marketing is not all about sales. there are so many different aspects of marketing that you can go into. research, strategy, creative, branding, etc…i do sales right now only b/c marketing is a tough field to get into. i chose this route b/c it will be easier to get into a marketing role in the future. actually, i’m waiting for an offer from the biggest advertising firm in the world. based on the sales exp. i have, they believe i would be a good fit. well that amongst other things i can offer them. i have a degree in marketing, and i wish i would have double majored in finance. that’s b/c i hope to one day be executive management and some sort of background in finance is definitely helpful. management, i feel, can be learned on the job through experience. since my ultimate goal is to work in strategy or branding, i will eventually pursue an MBA in marketing. having this MBA will definitely help me with that, but hopefully with becoming executive mgmt as well. either way you go, finance or marketing, you will definitely have a great future. it will take time for you to make the big bucks in marketing, whereas finance you may see the “ROI” quicker. it really just depends on what you want to do more. if your looking into research, but you like finance, there are jobs as financial researchers. i don’t know how exciting that is but that’s your decision. anyway, good luck with whatever you decide.

Eh… 30 seconds on google:

1. Harvard.

2. Stanford

3. UPenn

4. MIT

5. U. Chicago

5. Northwestern

7. Dartmouth

8. University of California

9. Columbia

10. NYU

Penn State’s Smeal School of Business is top of the line!

undergrad or graduate? google that.