2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Economics Major in Georgia

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General Economics is the 29th most popular major in the country with 28,837 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Georgia, there were 327 general economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 general economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Economics Major in Georgia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general economics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general economics.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Economics Major in Georgia

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Economics in Georgia

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Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

#4 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Economics Major in Georgia list. Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 116 masters’s general economics degrees to qualified students.

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Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Economics Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #1 spot on the list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general economics degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full Emory General 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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