Best General Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

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

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general social sciences students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general social sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general social sciences related body.

Our complete 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 United States

Sad to say, we do not have enough data to produce a ranking of the quality colleges for general social sciences in the United States. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer general social sciences and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

General Social Sciences by Region

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General Social Sciences Related Rankings by Major

General Social Sciences is one of 3 different types of General Social Sciences programs to choose from.

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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.