2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Illinois
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$39,700
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Social Sciences is the 44th most popular major in the country with 16,867 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Illinois, there were 247 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,783 and $153,500 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in general social sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Illinois
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Illinois”.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Illinois
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. UChicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 doctorate’s general social sciences degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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%.
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- *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.
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