You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drake University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Economics Major in Iowa list. Located in Des Moines, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified ’s other economics students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.