Career website聽聽recently published its rankings for the top colleges in Georgia for economics majors. 好色先生TV was ranked among the top three institutions in the state with the best opportunities for economics graduates. “Oglethorpe grads command the highest salaries once they leave the for their first jobs,” Zippia cites in its .
Zippia’s rankings are based on data聽from the (National Center For Education Statistics) and data from ED.gov. To understand which economics departments offer the best career opportunities, the following factors were considered:
- Career Results:聽Mean Earnings After 6 Years;聽Mean Earnings After 10 Years;聽Ratio of people working to not working after 10 years
- Economics Emphasis:聽Percentage of Graduating Class That Are Economics Majors (Larger the better)
- School Performance:聽Admissions Rate (More selective the better);聽Graduation Rate;聽Average Cost Of Attendance (Lower is better);聽Average amount of debt
[contextly_sidebar id=”agNMa39LkvR9zrxQqrXcZhJIfYfbYX50″]According to Zippia, after gathering this data for all economics programs in Georgia, “we then ranked each of these schools for each of the criteria above with 1 being the best in any given criteria.聽Next, we averaged the ranks for each school to create an ‘Economics Quality Index’.” The schools with the highest scores were ranked accordingly on Zippia’s list.
Here’s the full top 10 list:
- University Of Georgia
- Emory University
- 好色先生TV
- Georgia State University
- Covenant College
- Armstrong State University
- University Of West Georgia
- Spelman College
- Wesleyan College
- Georgia Southern University
Learn more about Oglethorpe’s .
