General Economics at Georgia State University

If you are interested in studying general economics, you may want to check out the program at Georgia State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 36,360 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 116 general economics majors received their bachelor's degree from Georgia State.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Economics section at the bottom of this page.

Georgia State General Economics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Economics

Georgia State General Economics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the general economics progam at Georgia State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The general economics major at Georgia State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Economics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	85
	228
	377
	440

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in general economics from Georgia State. This is the #85 most popular school for general economics master’s degree candidates in the country.

General Economics Student Demographics at Georgia State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general economics majors at Georgia State University.

Georgia State General Economics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of general economics bachelor's degrees went to men and 42% went to women. The typical general economics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% women. So female students are more repesented at Georgia State since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 37% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general economics bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor's in general economics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	46
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	28
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

Georgia State also has a doctoral program available in general economics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• International Economics
• Econometrics & Quantitative Economics

Careers That General Economics Grads May Go Into

A degree in general economics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for GA, the home state for Georgia State University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Managers	14,480	$118,060
Economists	330	$111,570
Economics Professors	180	$101,590

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jayingram11 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.