Best General Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best General Social Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great General Social Sciences School for Your Doctor's Degree

The social sciences doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality social sciences program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general social sciences students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general social sciences students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for general social sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general social sciences related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general social sciences students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Sadly , we did not have enough data to produce a ranking of the quality colleges for general social sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer general social sciences and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other General Social Sciences rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for General Social Sciences ranking.

Best General Social Sciences Colleges by State

Explore the best general social sciences schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	174	0

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General Social Sciences Related Rankings by Major

One of 13 majors within the Social Sciences area of study, General Social Sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Social Sciences Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Social Sciences	5
Research Methodology & Quantitative Methods	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Social Sciences

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	301
Political Science & Government	161
Sociology	121
Anthropology	111
International Relations & National Security	46
Other Social Sciences	35
Geography & Cartography	20
Urban Studies	7
Demography & Population Studies	6
Archeology	2

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Manfred Werner (Tsui). More about our data sources and methodologies.