by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Business Economics is the 130th most popular major in the country with 5,151 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 118 business economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 business economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in business economics. That schools that top this list have a program in business economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Suffolk University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 14 masters’s business economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the New England Region list. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 masters’s business economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bentley University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the New England Region list. Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 37 diplomas to qualified masters’s business economics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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