Ranked #15 in popularity, economics is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 9 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of economics. Combined, these schools handed out 871 bachelor's degrees in economics to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Economics School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of economics for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality economics program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to economics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other economics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt economics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized economics related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for economics students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Economics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It is difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Madison if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in economics. UW - Madison is a very large public university located in the city of Madison.
Bachelor's recipients from the economics major at University of Wisconsin - Madison make $5,154 above the standard college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
It's difficult to beat Marquette University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in economics. Marquette is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Milwaukee.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the economics program make about $46,400 in the first couple years of their career.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in economics has to check out Saint Norbert College. Located in the suburb of De Pere, SNC is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the economics program at Saint Norbert College earn $4,009 more than the standard college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
UW - Eau Claire is a moderately-sized public university located in the small city of Eau Claire.
Bachelor's recipients from the economics program at University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire make $2,003 more than the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
UW - La Crosse is a fairly large public university located in the small city of La Crosse.
Economics bachelor's degree recipients from University of Wisconsin - La Crosse receive an earnings boost of about $4,254 above the typical earnings of economics majors.
UW Oshkosh is a large public university located in the city of Oshkosh.
Bachelor's recipients from the economics major at University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh earn $8,322 above the average graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).