2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Applied Economics is the 534th most popular major in the country with 550 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 51 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree applied economics students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s applied economics degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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