2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region
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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 550 people earned their degree in applied economics, making the major the 534th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 38 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in applied economics. That schools that top this list have a program in applied economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree applied economics students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region list. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s applied economics degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Applied Economics at University of Central Oklahoma
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.
Full University of Arizona Applied Economics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s applied economics students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Full SMU Applied Economics Report
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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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