"Jose Luiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > "Dick Startz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Darkness gives good advice. A number of Canadian schools also give > > first rate Masters degrees in economics. > > -Dick Startz > > > > On 11 Aug 2003 23:42:59 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (darkness) wrote: > > >snip > > > > > >In England there is the London School of Economics (LSE), which is > > >very well known and has a very large economics programme, including, I > > >believe a masters degree. For an American, the costs of tuition would > > >be competitive with an American private college (although let me warn > > >you, I have friends from New York who think London is a more expensive > > >place to live). > > > > > >Also Oxford I think has a masters in economics. A very pretty town in > > >which to live. > > > > > Thanks for the advice but I'm not to keen on leaving the country for grad > school. I'd rather stay in the U.S., preferably in the Baltimore/D.C. area.
There are pluses and minuses to so doing, but I would consider it strongly. One of the delusions we all labour under is that our country, our university, our region is the best in what it does, or the only option. For example, Bocconi in Italy and Louvain (Leuven) in Belgium have fantastic economics programmes and people, based on the people I have met: really top people. And the Flemish Belgians in particular are just really likeable: very soft sense of humour, love of good beer, fantastic restaurants (yes, this in a country that serves mayonaise with the national dish, french fries). But no one in the English speaking world has heard of them. Now from a job perspective, this is a tremendous disadvantage, but from a learning about the world perspective it is not. The UK has very good economics/ business departments in places like Warwick, York, Sussex, Birkbeck (London), which no one has ever heard of outside the UK. Similarly Canadian cities like Montreal (McGill, U de Montreal), Vancouver (UBC) are some of the nicest places I have ever been to: North American cities but without the usual dirt and squalour (for real squalour, you need London ;-). The Canadian dollar makes business travel in these places, at least, a lot cheaper than many big American cities. I encourage you to think as widely as possible on this one: you might discover all kinds of things about yourself, and the world, you didn't know, simply by thinking 'outside the box'. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
