You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Applied Economics Major in Tennessee. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified ’s applied economics students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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