A degree in general social sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #54 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
There was only one school in Iowa to review for the 2025 Best General Social Sciences Schools in Iowa ranking.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Social Sciences Schools in Iowa ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of social sciences degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Upper Iowa University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general social sciences. Located in the rural area of Fayette, UIU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Those general social sciences students who get their degree from Upper Iowa University make $18,438 more than the standard social sciences grad.
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).
