Department of Economics around the world

Economics Department in the US and Canada
Economics Department outside the US

Ranking

The World's 50 Top Universities by Newsweek Magazine
Top 500 World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education
Top 3000 Universities by Webometrics
The 2006 Times Higher Education Ranking (pdf) by Time Magazine
America's Best Colleges 2007 by US News & World Report
Top 1000 economists by Tom Coup
Econometrics Ranking

Regularly awarded scholarships

The Royal Thai Government Scholarships
Strategic Scholarships for Frontier Research Network (Commission on Higher Education)
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce scholarships
Krung Thai Bank Scholarships
Kasikorn Bank Scholarships
JJ/WBGS Program (The World Bank)
Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies
Fulbright (USA)
East-West Center (USA)
British Chevening Scholarships (UK)
Erasmus Mundus (European Commission)
DAAD (Germany)
Eiffel Excellence Scholarships (France)
Endeavour Programme (Australia)
Monbukagakusho (Japan)

Useful information for Admission to Ph.D in Economics

www.econphd.net - Highly recommended for the prospective Ph.D applicants. Department ranking, admission statistics, admission guide and lecture notes are included in this site.
Ph.D in Economics Forum - Any question? Let discuss with the prospective and current Ph.D in economics students, most of whom are studying in the leading programs eg Yale, NYU, Wisconsin.
The AEA Graduate Study in Economics Web Pages - This website addresses questions typical of individuals interested in graduate study of economics.
Getting into Graduate School - Find the comprehensive and step by step advice about admission to graduate school (not restricted to the field of economics).

TOEFL and GRE Test Preparation Companies - To help boost your scores.

Kaplan Thailand
The Princeton Review

Economics Databases

National Statistical office (Thailand)
Office of the National Economics and Social Development Board (Thailand)
Office of Agricultural Economics (Thailand)
Fiscal Policy Office (Thailand)
Bank of Thailand
United Nations Statistics Division
WTO
Penn World Table

Other interesting links

Nobel Prize in Economics
About.com: Economics
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Practice your English by reading and listening to news from CNN and BBC.
Search for Jobs in JobsDB.com and JopTopgun.com

Edutainment

Jokes about economists
Interactive real analysis textbook
Corneconomics
Freakonomics

My friend's blogs

Pariyed
Ann
Doremee
Aerwadee (Utah State University)
Maneekwan (University of Kansas)
NatNFL (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
TESTCASE (Cornell University) he is also my roommate in Ithaca.

Last updated: August 2007