2025 Best General Social Sciences Schools in Texas
3Colleges in Texas
164General 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Social Sciences Schools in Texas ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 164 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 Texas list to help you make the college decision.
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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 is hard to beat University of North Texas if you want to pursue a degree in general social sciences. UNT is a fairly large public university located in the city of Denton. A Best Colleges rank of #310 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNT is a great university overall.
There were roughly 26 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at UNT in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in general social sciences has to take a look at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. UT Rio Grande Valley is a very large public university located in the city of Edinburg. This university ranks 30th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 10 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at UT Rio Grande Valley in the most recent data year.
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Every student who is interested in general social sciences needs to look into University of Houston - Downtown. Located in the large city of Houston, UH Downtown is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 50th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were approximately 21 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at UH Downtown 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.
