2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Business Economics is the 130th most popular major in the country with 5,667 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 642 business economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 business economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in business economics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in business economics.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree business economics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Business Economics in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Evanston, Illinois, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s business economics degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Business Economics at Northwestern
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified doctorate’s business economics students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Business Economics at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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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
- *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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