General Economics at Tougaloo College

If you plan to study general economics, take a look at what Tougaloo College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Tougaloo is located in Tougaloo, Mississippi and approximately 775 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 19 students received a bachelor's degree in general economics from Tougaloo.

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.

Tougaloo General Economics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Economics

Tougaloo General Economics Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The general economics major at Tougaloo 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
	4
	4
	100
	107
	230
	288
	444
	452
	455
	463

General Economics Student Demographics at Tougaloo

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general economics majors at Tougaloo College.

Tougaloo General Economics Bachelor’s Program

The general economics program at Tougaloo awarded 19 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 47% of these degrees went to men with the other 53% going to women. The typical general economics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% women. So female students are more repesented at Tougaloo since its program graduates 19% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 61% 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 Tougaloo College with a bachelor's in general economics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

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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 MS, the home state for Tougaloo College.

Occupation	Jobs in MS	Average Salary in MS
Managers	1,230	$82,230
Economics Professors	40	$96,740
Economists	40	$75,450

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 MS Dept of Archives and History under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.