2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 4 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree applied economics students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Far Western US Region

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University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

#8 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Los Angeles. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 29 masters’s applied economics degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Applied Economics at University of California - Los Angeles

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Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in Corvallis, Oregon, and it awarded 2 masters’s applied economics degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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University of California - Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Santa Cruz. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Santa Cruz, California, this fairly large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s applied economics students in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Applied Economics at University of California - Santa Cruz

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.

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