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1801 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122-6096
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3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131-1395
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1900 W Olney Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141-1199
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Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has six economics schools within its city limits. University of Pennsylvania, the highest ranked school in the city with an economics program, has a total student population of 24,599. It is the 5th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Pennsylvania. To learn more about economics programs in Philadelphia, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of economics professors at University of Pennsylvania such as Dave Cass, Jan Eeckhout, Eudey, Andrea Jao, Christopher Makler, and Jamie McAnderson.

Economics students from Philadelphia schools who go on to become economists, economics professors, analysts, economic analysts, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 13,160 people working as economists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $96,320. Also, Business and financial operations employees make on average $65,900 per year and there are about 6,063,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 103,640 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $72,500. Economists in this area earn $104,310/yr and there are 310 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.169 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by economists, and 56.544/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.

Of the 6 economics schools in Philadelphia, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Saint Joseph's University comes out as the most expensive ($34,548/yr) for economics students, with Holy Family University as the lowest, reported at only $14,145/yr.

Economics Programs in Philadelphia


University of Pennsylvania
  • Economics, General
    Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
Temple University
  • Economics, General
    Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
Drexel University
  • Economics, General
    Levels offered: Bachelors
Saint Joseph's University
  • Economics, General
    Levels offered: Bachelors
La Salle University
  • Economics, General
    Levels offered: Bachelors
  • International Economics
    Levels offered: Bachelors
Holy Family University
  • Economics, General
    Levels offered: Bachelors

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