2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in Texas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in Texas” 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 Texas, there were 30 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 applied economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in Texas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in applied economics. That schools that top this list have a program in applied economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in Texas

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Economics in Texas

1

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#4 overall quality in Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in Texas list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 10 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 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 SMU Applied Economics Report

2

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

#12 overall quality in Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in Texas. UH is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 20 masters’s applied economics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Applied Economics at University of Houston

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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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