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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in Alabama For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 19,542 people earned their degree in general social sciences, making the major the 39th most popular in the United States.

Across Alabama, there were 102 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general social sciences programs and cost less that 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 Master’s in Alabama For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Alabama (With Aid)

#1

Troy University

Troy, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$16,156 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Troy University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Getting Aid list. Troy, Alabama is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general social sciences degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

TROY did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at TROY are $16,156, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Social Sciences at TROY

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• Best Value Master’s Degree 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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