2025 Best General Social Sciences Schools in Maryland
3Colleges in Maryland
330General Social Sciences Degrees Awarded
Ranked #44 in popularity, general social sciences is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Social Sciences Schools in Maryland ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 330 degrees in general social sciences to qualified students.
Your choice of general social sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general social sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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 Maryland list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Social Sciences in Maryland
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general social sciences degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Maryland Global Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general social sciences. Located in the large suburb of Adelphi, UMGC is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #179 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMGC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 194 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at UMGC in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general social sciences has to take a look at Towson University. Towson is a large public university located in the city of Towson. This university ranks 5th out of 35 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were approximately 24 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at Towson in the most recent year we have data available.
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Every student pursuing a degree in general social sciences has to check out Frederick Community College. Frederick Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the small city of Frederick. This college ranks 22nd out of 35 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were approximately 87 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at Frederick Community College 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general social sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
