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.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Other Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 20 master's degrees in other social sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to other social sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other other social sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt other social sciences students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other social sciences related body.
Our complete 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 Great Lakes 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.
It is hard to beat University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee if you wish to pursue a master's degree in other social sciences. UWM is a very large public university located in the large city of Milwaukee.
Those other social sciences students who get their master's degree from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee make $7,395 more than the average other social sciences graduate.
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).
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