2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 56 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree applied economics students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in the Southeast Region

1

Auburn University at Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University at Montgomery. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. Auburn University at Montgomery is a medium-sized school located in Montgomery, Alabama that handed out 9 masters’s applied economics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Applied Economics at Auburn University at Montgomery

2

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region. Florida State is a large school located in Tallahassee, Florida that handed out 24 masters’s applied economics degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Applied Economics at Florida State University

3

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Southern University landed the #3 spot on the list. GaSou is a public institution located in Statesboro, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Applied Economics at Georgia Southern University

4

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Kentucky University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in the Southeast Region. WKU is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s applied economics degrees to qualified students.

Full Western Kentucky University 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

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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