Specialized Study in Economics

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Current completions

What level of degree do most graduates achieve, and do they match what your goals?

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Completions over time

Have completions for economics changed over time? Increasing completions may mean you'll likely have an easier time finding a school that offers this degree, with the opposite being true as well.

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Number of graduates

Research Doctorate

Post-master's Cert

Master's Degree

Postbaccalaureate Cert

Bachelor's Degree

2-4 Year Certificate

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2020 Ididio: Award levels

Salary and Debt

How are students who recently completed a degree in specialized study in economics doing?

Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field economics, which includes specialized study in economics.

Median starting salaries

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2020 College Scorecard

Median cumulative loan amount

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2020 College Scorecard

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Context: median salaries

How does the median (middle) salary for economics majors compare to the median salaries for other college majors?

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Distribution: economics majors' salaries by education level

What is the salary distribution for graduates with a bachelor's ineconomics by the level of their highest degree (Graduate degrees may not be in the same field as the bachelor’s)

We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.

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Is a bachelor's degree all you need?

Education level of workers with a bachelor's in economics

Is a bachelor's degree going to be sufficient to make you competative in the job market? We can look at the education level of workers with a bachelors in this degree to see if there is a likely need for a graduate degree. You'll also want to check out the careers section on this page to where they are employed.

This chart shows the level of education of workers with a bachelor's degree in economics. The worker's graduate degree may have been completed in a different field.

Education level of workers

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Professional Degree

Doctorate

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Context: Graduate degrees in any field by undergraduate ACS degree

About 41% of economics majors chose to also earn a graduate degree (possibly of a different major). The percentage of economics majors who also earned a graduate degree is higher than about 70% of other fields.

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Context: Percentage salary boost obtained with a graduate degree

How important is a graduate degree for earning a higher salary? We can see the difference in salary of workers with a bachelors in this degree to workers with a bachelor’s AND a graduate degree.

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Careers

Top careers for those with a degree in economics

Following are the most frequent jobs held by people who earned a bachelor's degree in Economics (which combines 6 programs), though may not be limited to just those with a bachelor’s.

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2019 BLS Employment Projections

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Careers for economics majors

Where do economics majors work, and how well do those jobs pay? A ** in the job title indicates that the Department of Education recommends this job for this program.

Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and similar judicial professionals

**Specialized Managers

Financial Managers

Accountants and Auditors

Chief executives and legislators

Management Analysts

Personal Financial Advisors

First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers

**Postsecondary Teachers

Financial and Investment Analysts

Computer Systems Analysts

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The top ten careers for workers with a bachelor's in economics

Take a minute to interact with this sankey diagram. Follow the top ten jobs held by economics graduates through to their most hired majors. Learn where it may easiest to find work. Expand the careers to explore other majors that might lead to the job that excites you the most. *For many majors, the top ten jobs don't even include half of graduates!*

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What careers hire economics majors as one of their top 10?

To the left of this diagram, see all careers that hire economics majors as one of their top 10 majors, and on the right, see what proportion of openings for the jobs on the left are filled by economics majors.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Where can I complete this degree

Explore schools that offer specialized study in economics degrees and certificates

You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.

Understanding the columns

The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an idea of the educational quality each school might offer:

Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.

We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.

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34 schools offer this award at any level in the selected area.

Central Washington University

Centre College

Drake University

Eastern Michigan University

Emory & Henry College

Michigan State University

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2021 College Scorecard

Related Programs

Top 10 similar programs

Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.

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Careers for economics majors

economics is part of a larger collection of programs: Economics. Is there a different program that's close to economics that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.

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2020 Ididio: Program completions

1987-2019 IPEDS

2020 Ididio: Award levels

Gender

Gender of recent graduates

Of all people with any degree in specialized study in economics earned in the last academic year, 36% were women.

Gender

Men

Women

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Completions over time

Have completions by gender changed over time, or at specific levels of education?

Award level

All levels

Women

Men

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2020 Ididio: Award levels

Context: Gender representation

How does the gender distribution in this major compare to all other majors?

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Context: Percentage women

This major has a lower percentage of women than 69% other programs.

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2020 Ididio: Program completions

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Distribution: salaries by gender

Does gender greatly influence your salary with this degree? The closer the bar are, the less discrepancy there is.

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Context: Salary inequity

For economics graduates, men have a 15% higher median salary than women, This is better than many: 66% of programs have graduates with higher salary inequities.

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Race/Origin

Race/Origin of recent graduates

Here is an overview of race/origin for all specialized study in economics graduates from this last academic year. We found a higher percentage of international graduates in this program than in 85% of other programs.

Race/Origin

White

Black

Pacific Islander

Hispanic

Asian

American Indian

Multiracial

Not Reported

International

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