If you pursue a bachelor's degree in economics, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #15 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for economics students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 368 bachelor's degrees in economics during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Economics School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of economics for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality economics program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to economics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other economics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt economics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized economics related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for economics students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Economics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Economics in Arizona
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics.
It's difficult to beat University of Arizona if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in economics. University of Arizona is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Tucson.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the economics program state that they receive average early career income of $47,908.
Arizona State University - Tempe is a great decision for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics. Located in the medium-sized city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Those economics students who get their bachelor's degree from Arizona State University - Tempe receive $2,290 more than the standard economics student.
Arizona State University - Skysong is a great option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in economics. ASU - Skysong is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Scottsdale.
Bachelor's recipients from the economics degree program at Arizona State University - Skysong earn $2,290 more than the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).