Average preparation level superiority of Italian graduates is still a reality and we hope it will survive long.

Evidence in this matter comes from Tom Coupe's research on the "Universitè Libre" in Bruxelles, according to which Bocconi University in Milan arrives in second place after Harvard in a world chart.

The survey compiled a chart of the 100 most productive economists in the world, selected on the basis of 11 criteria, pivoting around the number and the quality of publications on the most prestigious scientific magazines in five years between '94 and '98.

This chart has revealed that Lombardia’s famous university has officially entered the very narrow elite of Universities from which future best economists in the world graduate.

Coupe', as a matter of fact, after compiling the economists’ top 100, has sought for information on universities where the best have taken their degree.

Result: the chart sees Harvard at the first place and Bocconi at the second in equal merits with Berkeley and Cambridge, before Princeton, Chicago and Oxford, which are also among the first ten.

The most interesting figure is represented by the fact that Bocconi is the only non-Anglo-Saxon cultural institute to have graduated more than one economist among the first 100 in the world.