2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 16,867 people earned their degree in general social sciences, making the major the 44th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 806 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general social sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 2 masters’s general social sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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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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