2025 Best Economics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arkansas

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in economics, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #15 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Economics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arkansas ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 54 bachelor's degrees in economics during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor'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 bachelor'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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Economics in Arkansas

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

Top Arkansas Schools for a Bachelor's in Economics

1

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR

20 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in economics needs to take a look at University of Arkansas. UARK is a fairly large public university located in the city of Fayetteville.More information about a bachelor’s in economics from University of Arkansas

2

University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR

11 Annual Graduates

$41,919 Median Starting Salary

It is difficult to beat University of Central Arkansas if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in economics. Located in the city of Conway, UCA is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.

Soon after graduating, economics bachelor's recipients usually make about $41,919 in their early careers.

More information about a bachelor’s in economics from University of Central Arkansas

Best Economics Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Economics Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	1,333
Georgia	224	519
Tennessee	220	365
North Carolina	213	1,058
Virginia	213	1,201
South Carolina	195	287
Kentucky	187	202
Alabama	184	69
Louisiana	171	189
Mississippi	169	49
West Virginia	147	34

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Rankings in Majors Related to Economics

Economics is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Economics Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Economics	54

Majors Similar to Economics

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government	255
Sociology	179
Anthropology	60
International Relations & National Security	34
Geography & Cartography	19
General Social Sciences	14

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.