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General Economics at Swarthmore College

General Economics at Swarthmore College

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

Swarthmore is located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,437.

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.

Swarthmore General Economics Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in General Economics

Swarthmore General Economics Rankings

The general economics major at Swarthmore 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.

General Economics Student Demographics at Swarthmore

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

Swarthmore General Economics Bachelor’s Program

36% Women
39% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 64% of general economics bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% 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 Swarthmore since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Swarthmore College with a bachelor's in general economics.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 10
Black or African American 7
Hispanic or Latino 9
White 31
International Students 10
Other Races/Ethnicities 9

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 PA, the home state for Swarthmore College.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Managers 11,060 $126,290
Economics Professors 710 $131,060
Economists 610 $87,630
Survey Researchers 510 $60,810

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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