The main focus area for this major is General Economics. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Economics is a major offered under the social sciences program of study at Swarthmore College. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in economics, such as if the program is offered online, ethnicity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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If you're the kind of person who enjoys working with numbers and solving tough problems, a graduate degree in economics may be for you.
In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. Swarthmore is in the top 10% of the country for economics. More specifically it was ranked #33 out of 627 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #2 in Pennsylvania.
Here are some of the other rankings for Swarthmore.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at Swarthmore paid an average of $1,696 per credit hour. No discount was available for in-state students. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $54,256 | $54,256 |
Fees | $200 | $200 |
Books and Supplies | $735 | $735 |
On Campus Room and Board | $16,654 | $16,654 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,844 | $1,844 |
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You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Economics students who received their bachelor’s degree at Swarthmore took out an average of $21,500 in student loans. That is about the same as the national average of $21,243.
economics who receive their bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore make an average of $69,535 a year during the early days of their career. That is 49% higher than the national average of $46,790.
Online degrees for the Swarthmore economics bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Swarthmore Online Learning page.
Women made up around 29.8% of the economics students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 33.7%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in economics at Swarthmore in 2019-2020, 31.0% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 30%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 11 |
Black or African American | 5 |
Hispanic or Latino | 4 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 41 |
International Students | 13 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 10 |
Economics students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Economics | 84 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to economics.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Political Science & Government | 39 |
Urban Studies | 1 |
Sociology & Anthropology | 14 |
Other Social Sciences | 6 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.