2025 Best Development Economics & International Development Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
51Development Economics and International Development Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in development economics & international development, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #536 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for development economics & international development students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 51 degrees in development economics & international development annually.
Choosing a Great Development Economics & International Development School
Your choice of development economics & international development school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for development economics & international development schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Development Economics & International Development Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Development Economics & International Development Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Development Economics & International Development in the Great Lakes Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the development economics and international development degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Development Economics and International Development
Every student pursuing a degree in development economics & international development has to check out Ohio University - Athens Campus. OHIO Athens is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Athens. A Best Colleges rank of #184 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means OHIO Athens is a great university overall.
There were roughly 9 development economics & international development students who graduated with this degree at OHIO Athens in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of Dayton if you want to pursue a degree in development economics & international development. UDayton is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Dayton. This university ranks 8th out of 91 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were about 15 development economics & international development students who graduated with this degree at UDayton in the most recent data year.
Calvin University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in development economics & international development. Calvin is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Grand Rapids. This university ranks 20th out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 5 development economics & international development students who graduated with this degree at Calvin in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of development economics & international development school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for development economics & international development schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
