2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 593 people earned their degree in development economics and international development, making the major the 536th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 139 development economics and international development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 development economics and international development graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in development economics and international development. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in development economics and international development.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development in the Far Western US Region

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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s development economics and international development students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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Hope International University
Fullerton, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hope International University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Far Western US Region. This small school is located in Fullerton, California, and it awarded 0 masters’s development economics and international development degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development

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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