2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Social Sciences in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Social Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,116 people earned their degree in other social sciences, making the major the 182nd most popular in the United States. In , other social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $35,015 and had an average of $28,097 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 303 other social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,249 and $21,611 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 other social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Social Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other social sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in other social sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Social Sciences Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Social Sciences Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Social Sciences in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Social Sciences Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified masters’s other social sciences students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Clark Other Social Sciences Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Social Sciences Major in the New England Region. UMass Lowell is a fairly large school located in Lowell, Massachusetts that handed out 0 masters’s other social sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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