by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Business/Managerial Economics is the 119th most popular major in the country with 5,151 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , business/managerial economics graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $47,707 and had an average of $21,515 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,554 business/managerial economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,140 and $22,131 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 business/managerial economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 15 colleges that offer a degree in business/managerial economics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their business/managerial economics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree managerial economics students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Petersburg, Virginia, and it awarded 9 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
Read full report on Business/Managerial Economics at Virginia State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region. University of Southern Mississippi is a public institution located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Business/Managerial Economics at Southern Miss
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Troy University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. TROY is a public institution located in Troy, Alabama. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark Atlanta University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s managerial economics students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Clark Atlanta University Business/Managerial Economics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, and it awarded 20 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of Central Florida ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Central Florida is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 51 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Business/Managerial Economics at University of Central Florida
University of Miami landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region ranking. U Miami is a fairly large school located in Coral Gables, Florida that handed out 53 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Miami Business/Managerial Economics Report
Georgia State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #8. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school awarded 54 degrees to qualified masters’s managerial economics students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
With a ranking of #8, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s managerial economics students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region ranking. VCU is a large public school situated in Richmond, Virginia. It awarded 33 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Auburn University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region ranking. This large school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 6 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Business/Managerial Economics at Auburn University
Mississippi State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Mississippi State University is a large public school situated in Mississippi State, Mississippi. It awarded 17 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #8. This large school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 31 masters’s managerial economics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Business/Managerial Economics at UT Knoxville
University of Georgia ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. UGA is located in Athens, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 182 masters’s managerial economics degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of New Orleans ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Managerial Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s managerial economics degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Business/Managerial Economics at University of New Orleans
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