2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development in the Southeast Region

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Development Economics & International Development is the 536th most popular major in the country with 593 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 98 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 26 development economics and international development graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in development economics and international development. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their development economics and international development program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development in the Southeast Region

1

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory 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 Southeast Region. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s development economics and international development degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Development Economics & International Development at Emory University

2

Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Murray State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southeast Region. Murray State University is located in Murray, Kentucky and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s development economics and international development degrees to qualified students.

Full Murray State University Development Economics & International Development Report

2

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#21 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southeast Region list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s development economics and international development degrees to 50 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read full report on Development Economics & International Development at Tulane

2

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Development Economics and International Development Major in the Southeast Region list. Vanderbilt University is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 0 masters’s development economics and international development degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Vanderbilt Development Economics & International Development Report

• 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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