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Largest economics programs in the United States
U.S. economics programs, ranked by awards conferred in 2024, the latest IPEDS completions year on file. At least 5 schools must offer the program for this list to exist.
| Rank | School | City | Sector | Awards conferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | Public, 4-year | 758 |
| 2 | University of Chicago | Chicago | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 698 |
| 3 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison | Public, 4-year | 644 |
| 4 | Columbia University in the City of New York | New York | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 493 |
| 5 | Texas A&M University-College Station | College Station | Public, 4-year | 476 |
| 6 | University of Connecticut | Storrs | Public, 4-year | 450 |
| 7 | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin | Public, 4-year | 440 |
| 8 | Boston College | Chestnut Hill | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 427 |
| 9 | University of California-Irvine | Irvine | Public, 4-year | 411 |
| 10 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Amherst | Public, 4-year | 387 |
| 11 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Champaign | Public, 4-year | 386 |
| 12 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill | Public, 4-year | 365 |
| 13 | Boston University | Boston | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 358 |
| 14 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 344 |
| 15 | Utah State University | Logan | Public, 4-year | 329 |
| 16 | University of Florida | Gainesville | Public, 4-year | 318 |
| 17 | Binghamton University | Vestal | Public, 4-year | 314 |
| 18 | Pasadena City College | Pasadena | Public, 2-year | 287 |
| 19 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | Charlottesville | Public, 4-year | 280 |
| 20 | Michigan State University | East Lansing | Public, 4-year | 267 |
| 21 | University of Washington | Seattle | Public, 4-year | 258 |
| 22 | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | Public, 4-year | 255 |
| 23 | Duke University | Durham | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 248 |
| 24 | Yale University | New Haven | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 248 |
| 25 | Los Angeles Pierce College | Woodland Hills | Public, 2-year | 247 |
Completions counts total awards conferred, summed across every credential level, from IPEDS.
How to read this. A larger school naturally confers more awards in a common program; this counts total completions, not selectivity. A campus that is part of one multi-campus system is shown as a single row when more than two of its campuses would otherwise appear.
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