2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Economics and Computer Science

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Economics and Computer Science Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Economics and Computer Science is the 388th most popular major in the country with 2 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 economics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Economics and Computer Science Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in economics and computer science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in economics and computer science.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Economics and Computer Science Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree economics and computer science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Economics and Computer Science

1

Marian University
Indianapolis, Indiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Economics and Computer Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Marian University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s economics and computer science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Marian University Economics and Computer Science Report

2

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#24 overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Economics and Computer Science Major list. Washington University in St Louis is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 1 bachelors’s economics and computer science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Economics and Computer Science at WUSTL

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.