by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 618 people earned their degree in applied economics, making the major the 534th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 55 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 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.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region list. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s applied economics degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Applied Economics at University of Central Oklahoma
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s applied economics students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southwest Region. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 10 bachelors’s applied economics degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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