Business Economics at University of California - Santa Cruz

What traits are you looking for in a business economics school? To help you decide if University of California - Santa Cruz is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's business economics program.

UC Santa Cruz is located in Santa Cruz, California and has a total student population of 19,161. In 2021, 291 business economics majors received their bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz.

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

UC Santa Cruz Business Economics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics

UC Santa Cruz Business Economics Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks business economics programs across the country. The following shows how UC Santa Cruz performed in these rankings.

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 business economics major at UC Santa Cruz is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Business 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
	2
	2
	11
	12
	34
	38
	59
	62
	132
	140

Business Economics Student Demographics at UC Santa Cruz

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the business economics majors at University of California - Santa Cruz.

UC Santa Cruz Business Economics Bachelor’s Program

The business economics program at UC Santa Cruz awarded 291 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 64% of these degrees went to men with the other 36% going to women. The typical business economics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% women. So female students are more repesented at UC Santa Cruz since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% more racial-ethnic minorities in its business economics bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - Santa Cruz with a bachelor's in business economics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	95
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	51
White	46
International Students	76
Other Races/Ethnicities	19

UC Santa Cruz also has a doctoral program available in business economics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Careers That Business Economics Grads May Go Into

A degree in business 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 CA, the home state for University of California - Santa Cruz.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Economists	1,430	$124,430
Survey Researchers	780	$75,150
Economics Professors	700	$139,050

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 Satyriconi under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.