2023 Most Well Attended Economics and Computer Science Major for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Economics and Computer Science Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Economics and Computer Science is the 1419th most popular major in the country with 2 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 economics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Economics and Computer Science Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in economics and computer science. To top this list, a school must have a successful economics and computer science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Economics and Computer Science Major for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree economics and computer science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Economics and Computer Science

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Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#24 overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Economics and Computer Science Major for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s economics and computer science students in 2020-2021.

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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Economics and Computer Science at WUSTL

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Marian University
Indianapolis, Indiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Economics and Computer Science Major for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Marian University landed the #1 spot on the list. Marian is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s economics and computer science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Economics and Computer Science at Marian University

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.