2022 Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Social Sciences is the 51st most popular major in the country with 19,742 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,665 and had an average of $22,423 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 355 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,900 and $21,781 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 207 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general social sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general social sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general social sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences (Income Over $110k) in Maryland

#1

Coppin State University

Baltimore, Maryland

#4 in overall quality

$11,686 Average Net Price

$40,485 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Coppin State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s social sciences degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Coppin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. The yearly cost to attend Coppin State University is $11,686 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Social Sciences students whose families make more than $110k.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at Coppin State University

#2

Towson University

Towson, Maryland

#2 in overall quality

$18,233 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Towson University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k list. Towson is a large school located in Towson, Maryland that handed out 27 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Towson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. The estimated yearly cost for Towson University is $18,233 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Social Sciences students whose families make more than $110k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at Towson University

#3

Frostburg State University

Frostburg, Maryland

#3 in overall quality

$16,676 Average Net Price

$37,568 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Frostburg State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Frostburg State University is a small public school situated in Frostburg, Maryland. It awarded 8 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Frostburg State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. It costs about $16,676 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Social Sciences students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Frostburg State.

Full Frostburg State General Social Sciences Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences (Income Over $110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences (Income Over $110k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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