2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Far Western US Region

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Applied Economics is the 534th most popular major in the country with 618 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 41 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in applied economics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their applied economics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree applied economics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Far Western US Region

1

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Top 15% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of San Francisco. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in San Francisco, California, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s applied economics students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full USFCA Applied Economics Report

2

Pitzer College
Claremont, California

Top 20% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pitzer College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Claremont, California, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s applied economics students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Applied Economics at Pitzer College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics

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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