2025 Best General Social Sciences Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
247General Social Sciences Degrees Awarded
General Social Sciences is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #44 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for general social sciences students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 247 degrees in general social sciences annually.
Your choice of general social sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Social Sciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Social Sciences Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Social Sciences in Illinois
The schools below may not offer all types of general social sciences degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's difficult to beat University of Chicago if you wish to pursue a degree in general social sciences. UChicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago. A Best Colleges rank of #3 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UChicago is a great university overall.
There were approximately 227 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at UChicago in the most recent data year.
Northwestern University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general social sciences. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 1 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent data year.
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Any student pursuing a degree in general social sciences needs to take a look at North Central College. North Central is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Naperville. This college ranks 32nd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 11 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at North Central in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of general social sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Social Sciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
