2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in California
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Applied Economics is the 534th most popular major in the country with 550 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across California, there were 31 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,904 and $19,503 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in California” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in applied economics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in applied economics.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in California
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in California”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in California
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of San Francisco. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in California. Located in San Francisco, California, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s applied economics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of San Francisco Applied Economics Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Pitzer College landed the #2 spot on the list. Claremont, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s applied economics degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Pitzer College Applied Economics Report
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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
- *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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