2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Economy Major in the Southwest Region
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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Economy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Political Economy is the 665th most popular major in the country with 358 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 16 political economy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 political economy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Economy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in political economy. That schools that top this list have a program in political economy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Economy Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree political economy students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Political Economy in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Economy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s political economy degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Political Economy at ASU - Tempe
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona Christian University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Economy Major in the Southwest Region. Arizona Christian University is located in Phoenix, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s political economy degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Political Economy at Arizona Christian University
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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
- *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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