2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Virginia (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Social Sciences is the 39th most popular major in the country with 19,542 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Virginia, there were 1,697 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 103 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general social sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree general social sciences students with aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Virginia (With Aid)

#1

Radford University

Radford, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$16,447 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Radford University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Radford, Virginia, this fairly large public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general social sciences students in 2019-2020.

Radford did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. The yearly cost to attend Radford is $16,447 for Virginia Bachelor’s Degree General Social Sciences students with aid.

Read more about General Social Sciences at Radford University

#2

Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia Beach, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$23,425 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Wesleyan University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid. Virginia Beach, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general social sciences degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

VWU also made our “Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $23,425 for Virginia Bachelor’s Degree General Social Sciences students with aid per year to attend VWU.

Read more about General Social Sciences at VWU

#3

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#3 in overall quality

$28,903 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general social sciences degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Liberty University also took the #3 spot in our “Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Liberty University is $28,903 for Virginia Bachelor’s Degree General Social Sciences students with aid.

Read more about General Social Sciences at Liberty University

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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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