When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in other social sciences sits in the middle of the road, ranking #167 out of 343 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for other social sciences students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 83 master's degrees in other social sciences to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Other Social Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of other social sciences for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality other social sciences program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on other social sciences students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of other social sciences students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for other social sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other social sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other social sciences students working on their master's degree.
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 Other Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Other Social Sciences Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Learn to analyze social factors and become an advocate for individual and community health with this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in other social sciences has to look into Azusa Pacific University. Azusa Pacific is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Azusa.
Students who graduate with their master's from the other social sciences program state that they receive average early career wages of $45,696.
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).