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Princeton University Department of Economics
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<p>The Princeton University Department of Economics is an <a href="/facts/Academic_department/3P59yHGT">academic department</a> of <a href="/facts/Princeton_University/n3EPGHBM">Princeton University</a>, an <a href="/facts/Ivy_League/BJchlDEN">Ivy League</a> institution located in <a href="/facts/Princeton%2c_New_Jersey/fceTzdde">Princeton, New Jersey</a>. The department is renowned as one of the premier programs worldwide for the study of <a href="/facts/Economics/HYctA2Dn">economics</a>. The university offers undergraduate A.B. degrees, as well as graduate degrees at the Ph.D. level. It is often considered one of the "big five" schools in the field, along with the faculties at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Chicago/z6zRMUmV">University of Chicago</a>, <a href="/facts/Harvard_University/Lhy9L1cx">Harvard University</a>, <a href="/facts/Stanford_University/JEQeF9z2">Stanford University</a>, and <a href="/facts/MIT_Department_of_Economics/tyJAQs8I">MIT</a>. According to the 2023-2024 <i><a href="/facts/U.S._News_%2526_World_Report/5dUQWa8D">U.S. News & World Report</a></i>, its graduate department is ranked as the joint No. 4 in the field of economics, in a four-way tie between it, the <a href="/facts/University_of_Chicago/z6zRMUmV">University of Chicago</a>, <a href="/facts/Yale_University/KUdS6jt1">Yale University</a>, and the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California, Berkeley</a>. </p><p>The department is centered at the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building & Louis A. Simpson International Building, formerly 20 Washington Road, which also houses the <a href="/facts/Princeton_Institute_for_International_and_Regional_Studies/gpYgI34d">Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies</a>, the <a href="/facts/Bendheim_Center_for_Finance/5Anv0stU">Bendheim Center for Finance</a>, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the <a href="/facts/Julis-Rabinowitz_Center_for_Public_Policy_and_Finance/rLEVz638">Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance</a>. It is also home to the Industrial Relations Library. </p>