2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 94 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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 Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree applied economics students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Great Lakes Region

1

Bowling Green State University - Main Campus
Bowling Green, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Bowling Green, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s applied economics students in 2020-2021.

Full BGSU Applied Economics Report

2

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Akron, Ohio, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s applied economics degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Akron Main Campus Applied Economics Report

3

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #3 spot on the list. DePaul University is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s applied economics degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full DePaul University Applied Economics Report

• 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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