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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Universities and their Economics taste

What type of styles do different Graduate programs in the United States have for Economics?
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Define "taste."


Virtually all programs are nearly identical in the first year, requiring yearlong sequences in microeconomic theory (classic consumer and firm theory, general equilibrium, game theory, topics), macroeconomic theory (growth, business cycles, topics), and econometrics (probability, statistics, regression analysis, and topics). Sometimes the first year is augmented with a mathematics-for-economists class (mostly covering optimization and elementary mathematical analysis). 

The second year is where heterogeneity becomes apparent, but all schools offer field courses in macroeconomics, applied econometrics, econometric theory, microeconomic theory, and applied microeconomics. Some schools focus more on one or two of those subfields than others.

Some departments have particular *specialties,* the most pronounced ones being

* Minnesota focuses heavily on macro
* CalTech focuses heavily on micro
* UC San Diego is unusually focused on econometrics
* Penn, Columbia and NYU are strong in macro
* Yale is very strong in econometrics
* ...but these are just examples. Learning department specialties is inevitably time-consuming. 

If you're looking for "saltwater" and "freshwater" distinctions, those have been irrelevant for at least a decade.

If you're looking for department culture (collaborative/cutthroat...), then you're going to be hard-pressed to find information on the Internet. A lot of that info is "soft knowledge."