2022 Best Value Colleges for General Social Sciences in Kansas (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Social Sciences Schools in Kansas For Those Getting Aid” 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 Kansas, there were 118 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,100 and $25,500 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Social Sciences Schools in Kansas For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general social sciences. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general social sciences programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Social Sciences Schools in Kansas For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Sciences Schools in Kansas For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for General Social Sciences in Kansas (With Aid)

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$18,285 Average Net Price

$45,016 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Social Sciences Schools in Kansas For Those Getting Aid list. Kansas State University is a large school located in Manhattan, Kansas that handed out 95 ’s social sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

K -State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Social Sciences Schools in Kansas” list. It costs about $18,285 for Kansas Social Sciences students with aid per year to attend K -State.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full K -State General Social Sciences Report

#2

Benedictine College

Atchison, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$23,011 Average Net Price

$37,383 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Social Sciences Schools in Kansas For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Benedictine College landed the #2 spot on the list. Benedictine College is a small school located in Atchison, Kansas that handed out 4 ’s social sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Benedictine College also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Social Sciences Schools in Kansas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Benedictine College is $23,011 for Kansas Social Sciences students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Social Sciences at Benedictine College

• Best Value Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for General Social Sciences (With Aid)

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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