2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in North Dakota

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in North Dakota” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2021-2022, 47,809 people earned their degree in economics, making the major the 19th most popular in the United States. In , economics graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $48,722 and had an average of $21,489 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Dakota, there were 43 economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,653 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $29,932 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in North Dakota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in economics. That schools that top this list have a program in 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 Economics Major in North Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for north dakota master’s degree economics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Economics in North Dakota

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in North Dakota list. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s economics degrees to 20 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Economics at UND

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fargo, North Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s economics students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Economics at North Dakota State University - Main Campus

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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