2023 Best Value Economics Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Economics Doctor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 193 degrees and certificates were awarded to economics students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #32 most popular major in the state.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Economics Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for economics students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Economics Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for economics majors pursuing a doctor's degree.
Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Economics
Our analysis found University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be the best value school for economics students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in North Carolina. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public school located in the city of Chapel Hill.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNC Chapel Hill are $12,566 per year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UNC Chapel Hill is ranked #4 for overall quality for economics in North Carolina.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at North Carolina State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value economics schools in North Carolina. NC State is a very large public school located in the city of Raleigh.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NC State are $11,703 per year.
NC State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Economics Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list.
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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Duke University is a great value for economics students working on their doctor’s degree. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Duke are $59,141 a year.
Duke also took the #1 spot in our Best Economics Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina rankings.
Best Value Economics Colleges in the Southeast Region
Explore all the Best Value Economics Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Virginia | 128 |
| Florida | 110 |
| Georgia | 123 |
| Tennessee | 71 |
| Kentucky | 20 |
| Louisiana | 20 |
| Alabama | 38 |
| South Carolina | 29 |
| Mississippi | 14 |
| Arkansas | 14 |
| West Virginia | 8 |
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Majors Related to Economics
One of 12 majors within the area of study, economics has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Economics
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| International Relations & National Security | 5,010 |
| Political Science & Government | 2,664 |
| Geography & Cartography | 2,315 |
| Sociology | 1,907 |
| Anthropology | 1,446 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.
- 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).
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