2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Plains States Region
4
Ranked Colleges
107
Degrees Awarded
$39,917
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
General Social Sciences is the 54th most popular major in the country with 17,338 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $33,861 and had an average of $23,202 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 473 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,486 and $27,657 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 107 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general social sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general social sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree social sciences students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bellevue University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Bellevue, Nebraska, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 106 diplomas to qualified masters’s social sciences students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Read full report on General Social Sciences at Bellevue University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Louis University is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 masters’s social sciences degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Social Sciences at Saint Louis University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Webster University landed the #3 spot on the list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s social sciences degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Webster University General Social Sciences Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Fargo, North Dakota, and it awarded 0 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%.
Full North Dakota State University - Main Campus General Social Sciences Report
Switch to a Different Ranking Method
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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
Credits
