WKU MA in Applied Economics Job Placement

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Graduates of the MA in Applied Economics at WKU found jobs in the following businesses and government institutions: 

• Accenture
• Alaskan Airlines
• Anthem
• Ascension 
• Baird
• Big Chalk Analytics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census Bureau
• Empower
• eviCore
• Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• FIS/Worldpay
• Fruit of the Loom
• Humana
• LG&E
• Kentucky Legislative Research Commission 
• Macy's
• Nissan Motor Corporation
• Optum
• Pilot
• Reliant Wealth Planning
• Schneider Electric
• Tennessee State Government
• Truist
• TVA
• U.S. Bank
• U.S. Senate staff
• USDA
• Visa

 

Our graduates have been accepted to many Ph.D. programs:

• American University (Ph.D. in Economics)
• Old Dominion (Ph.D. in Public Policy)
• Texas Tech (Ph.D. in Economics)
• University of Iowa (Ph.D. in Economics)
• University of Houston (Ph.D. in Economics)
• University of Kentucky, (Ph.D. in Economics, Ph.D. in Finance)
• University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (Ph.D. in Economics)
• University of Tennessee (Ph.D. in Economics)
• University of Wyoming (Ph.D. in Economics)
• University of West Virginia (Ph.D. in Economics)