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Table 2
Overall Heterodox-Adjusted Rankings for Ph.D.-Granting
Institutions in Economics
Overall Per Faculty
Productivity Rank
Number Rank (Grijalva-
of (Grijalva- Z- Nowell
School Faculty Nowell Rank) Score Rank)
Harvard U 43 1 (1) 5.47 1 (1)
UC Berkeley 56 2 (2) 4.08 4 (4)
Princeton U 49 3 (3) 3.96 3 (3)
MIT 34 4 (4) 3.50 2 (2)
Yale U 43 5 (5) 1.89 12 (11)
U Michigan 49 6 (6) 1.85 19 (18)
New York U 37 7 (7) 1.76 7 (8)
UCLA 45 8 (8) 1.64 18 (16)
Stanford U 40 9 (9) 1.54 14 (13)
Columbia U 35 10 (11) 1.47 5 (9)
U Chicago 31 11 (10) 1.47 10 (5)
Northwestern U 34 12 (12) 1.27 13 (12)
UC San Diego 29 13 (13) 1.23 6 (6)
U Wisconsin, Madison 29 14 (14) 1.06 11 (10)
Boston U 34 15 (15) 0.87 23 (22)
U Pennsylvania 27 16 (16) 0.68 17 (15)
Ohio State U 34 17 (17) 0.68 31 (28)
Michigan State U 43 18 (18) 0.62 49 (49)
Cornell U 29 19 (19) 0.56 24 (23)
U Virginia 25 20 (20) 0.54 20 (17)
U Maryland, College Park 29 21 (21) 0.49 28 (27)
U Illinois, Urbana 35 22 (22) 0.47 41 (38)
Carnegie Mellon U 35 23 (23) 0.46 43 (41)
Duke U 30 24 (24) 0.40 34 (31)
UC Davis 26 25 (25) 0.38 26 (25)
U Southern California 22 26 (26) 0.35 15 (19)
U Texas, Austin 25 27 (27) 0.33 25 (24)
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Table 2 Continued
Overall Per Faculty
Productivity Rank
Number Rank (Grijalva-
of (Grijalva- Z- Nowell
School Faculty Nowell Rank) Score Rank)
Brown U 27 28 (28) 0.31 32 (29)
North Carolina State U 39 29 (30) 0.28 63 (58)
U Minnesota 22 30 (29) 0.28 21 (20)
Vanderbilt U 28 31 (32) 0.27 36 (35)
Johns Hopkins U 19 32 (33) 0.26 16 (14)
Iowa State U 39 33 (31) 0.26 64 (59)
City U of New York 51 34 (44) 0.19 85 (98)
Pennsylvania State U 27 35 (35) 0.19 39 (43)
Syracuse U 31 36 (34) 0.18 53 (53)
U Massachusetts, Amherst 21 37 (70) 0.11 30 (85)
Boston College 20 38 (37) 0.09 27 (26)
Georgetown U 25 39 (36) 0.08 44 (40)
California Inst Tech 13 40 (38) 0.08 8 (7)
U Rochester 17 41 (39) 0.02 22 (21)
UNC, Chapel Hill 25 42 (40) 0.01 50 (48)
George Mason U 27 43 (41) 0.00 56 (55)
UC Santa Cruz 19 44 (43) -0.03 33 (30)
U Colorado, Boulder 27 45 (42) -0.03 59 (56)
U Washington 24 46 (45) -0.04 51 (50)
U Illinois, Chicago 20 47 (46) -0.04 35 (34)
Arizona State U 27 48 (47) -0.05 61 (57)
Rice U 19 49 (48) -0.10 38 (36)
Florida State U 24 50 (52) -0.10 58 (61)
Texas A&M U 26 51 (49) -0.11 66 (60)
Georgia State U 28 52 (50) -0.14 74 (69)
UC Santa Barbara 26 53 (51) -0.15 67 (63)
Indiana U 18 54 (53) -0.20 46 (46)
George Washington U 27 55 (54) -0.23 81 (75)
Rutgers U 24 56 (55) -0.26 76 (70)
UC Irvine 16 57 (56) -0.27 60 (44)
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Table 2 Continued
Overall Per Faculty
Productivity Rank
Number Rank (Grijalva-
of (Grijalva- Z- Nowell
School Faculty Nowell Rank) Score Rank)
U Oregon 18 58 (57) -0.28 57 (54)
U Houston 23 59 (58) -0.28 75 (72)
UC Riversidea 19 60 (72) -0.29 62 (81)
U of Iowa 16 61 (60) -0.32 54 (52)
U Pittsburgh 21 62 (59) -0.32 73 (68)
U Wyoming 13 63 (61) -0.32 37 (32)
U Arizona 15 64 (62) -0.34 52 (51)
U Kentucky 14 65 (63) -0.35 47 (45)
U Florida 18 66 (64) -0.35 70 (64)
U Missouri, Kansas City 7 67 (121) -0.36 9 (105)
American U 20 68 (81) -0.37 79 (102)
Southern Methodist U 17 69 (65) -0.37 68 (62)
Washington U, St. Louis 16 70 (69) -0.39 65 (67)
U Connecticut 24 71 (68) -0.39 92 (89)
Clemson U 19 72 (66) -0.39 78 (73)
Purdue U 20 73 (67) -0.40 83 (76)
Emory U 15 74 (71) -0.45 72 (66)
U Nebraska, Lincoln 14 75 (86) -0.46 69 (84)
U South Carolina 10 76 (73) -0.46 42 (39)
U Wisconsin, Milwaukee 18 77 (79) -0.48 90 (95)
U Georgia 13 78 (74) -0.49 71 (65)
Virginia Tech 15 79 (75) -0.49 80 (74)
U Albany 14 80 (76) -0.50 77 (71)
SUNY Binghamton 16 81 (77) -0.51 82 (77)
Colorado State U 17 82 (105) -0.51 91 (116)
New School U 10 83 (98) -0.52 55 (87)
Rensselaer Polytechnic I. 7 84 (84) -0.52 29 (33)
Wayne State U 9 85 (78) -0.53 48 (47)
U Utah 20 86 (108) -0.53 104 (123)
U Delaware 20 87 (80) -0.54 106 (101)
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Table 2 Continued
Overall Per Faculty
Productivity Rank
Number Rank (Grijalva-
of (Grijalva- Z- Nowell
School Faculty Nowell Rank) Score Rank)
U Missouri, Columbia 14 88 (82) -0.55 84 (78)
U Kansas 17 89 (83) -0.55 100 (93)
SUNY Buffalo 14 90 (85) -0.55 86 (83)
U Alabama 15 91 (89) -0.57 95 (96)
U Notre Dame 7 92 (88) -0.58 45 (42)
Florida International U 15 93 (87) -0.58 98 (92)
U Oklahoma 14 94 (90) -0.60 99 (97)
Brandeis U 6 95 (91) -0.61 40 (37)
Louisiana State U 11 96 (92) -0.62 89 (80)
SUNY Stony Brook 12 97 (93) -0.62 97 (91)
Oregon State U 11 98 (94) -0.63 93 (86)
Lehigh U 13 99 (95) -0.63 103 (99)
U Miami 10 100 (96) -0.63 87 (79)
Auburn U 11 101 (97) -0.64 96 (90)
Temple U 19 102 (111) -0.65 121 (124)
Washington State U 10 103 (99) -0.66 94 (88)
U New Hampshire 14 104 (117) -0.66 110 (121)
Oklahoma State U 13 105 (100) -0.66 108 (104)
Northern Illinois U 11 106 (102) -0.67 105 (100)
Southern Ill U, Carbondale 10 107 (101) -0.67 101 (94)
West Virginia U 16 108 (103) -0.67 116 (111)
Portland State U 10 109 (123) -0.67 102 (120)
U New Orleans 16 110 (104) -0.67 117 (113)
Western Michigan U 17 111 (110) -0.68 122 (119)
U Tennessee, Knoxville 12 112 (106) -0.68 109 (106)
U Hawaii, Manoa 16 113 (107) -0.68 120 (115)
Northeastern U 12 114 (119) -0.69 111 (117)
U Arkansas 12 115 (109) V0.69 112 (107)
U Mississippi 12 116 (113) -0.70 115 (110)
Kansas State U 13 117 (114) -0.70 118 (114)
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Table 2 Continued
Overall Per Faculty
Productivity Rank
Number Rank (Grijalva-
of (Grijalva- Z- Nowell
School Faculty Nowell Rank) Score Rank)
U New Mexico 13 118 (112) -0.70 119 (112)
Fordham U 10 119 (115) -0.72 113 (108)
U Rhode Island 8 120 (116) -0.72 107 (103)
Utah State U 20 121 (118) -0.73 127 (127)
Claremont Graduate U 5 122 (120) -0.73 88 (82)
Middle Tennessee State 12 123 (124) -0.74 124 (125)
Clark U 8 124 (122) -0.75 114 (109)
Colorado School of Mines 9 125 (125) -0.77 125 (122)
Texas Tech U 7 126 (126) -0.77 123 (118)
Suffolk U 8 127 (127) -0.79 126 (126)
Howard U 9 128 (128) -0.80 128 (128)
a
U California, Riverside and U California, Irvine rankings were switched in Grijalva and
Nowell (2008). The rankings are corrected this table.
correlation is Rs = 0.979), with the first “significant” change occurring
with the City University of New York whose ranking increases from 44
to 34 quickly followed by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
whose ranking increases from 70 to 37. The other major changes
involved departments moving from the bottom 25 percent of depart-
ments to the bottom third of departments—advances to be sure but
not that significant. The exception is the University of Missouri, Kansas
City, which moves from the bottom 6 percent of the departments to
almost the top half of departments. So while there is movement in the
overall productivity rankings, they generally involve the movement of
“heterodox” departments from the lower to the middle ranks, thus
making them look more like the “average” mainstream department,
although the differences in the aggregate productivity is fairly small, as
indicated by the z-score in column 4 of Table 2.19
The fifth column of Table 2, “Per Faculty Rank,” shows how each
department ranks when its heterodox-adjusted total productivity sum
