2025 Best Economics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Economics is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #24 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for economics students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 45 doctor's degrees in economics during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to economics students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other economics students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt economics students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized economics related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for economics students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Economics Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Economics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Economics in the Rocky Mountains Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in economics.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Doctorate in Economics

1

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO

12 Annual Graduates

Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a good decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in economics. Located in the midsize city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in economics from Colorado State University - Fort Collins

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO

11 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in economics has to look into University of Colorado Boulder. Located in the city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in economics from University of Colorado Boulder

Best Economics Colleges by State

Explore the best economics schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	123	19
Utah	104	9
Wyoming	32	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Economics

One of 13 majors within the Social Sciences area of study, Economics has other similar majors worth exploring.

Economics Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Econometrics & Quantitative Economics	33
General Economics	12

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Anthropology	15
Political Science & Government	15
Sociology	15
Geography & Cartography	8
Urban Studies	4
International Relations & National Security	1

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to pixabay. More about our data sources and methodologies.