2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region
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Applied Economics is the 534th most popular major in the country with 550 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 39 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in applied economics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in applied economics.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of San Francisco landed the #1 spot on the list. University of San Francisco is a private not-for-profit institution located in San Francisco, California. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pitzer College landed the #2 spot on the list. Claremont, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s applied economics degrees to 0 students 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 0.8% 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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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%.
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- *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.
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