If you plan on getting your master's degree in economics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #41 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for economics students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 97 master's degrees in economics during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Choosing a Great Economics School for Your Master's Degree
The economics master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on economics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other economics students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt economics students go into to obtain their master'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 schools for economics students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Economics Master's Degree Schools in Georgia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Economics in Georgia
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in economics.
Emory University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in economics. Located in the large city of Atlanta, Emory is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Master's recipients from the economics major at Emory University get $6,017 above the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
Georgia State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in economics. Located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia State is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the economics program state that they receive average early career earnings of $57,518.
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).
The economics master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
