2022 Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 205,726 social sciences students received their degree, making the major the 5th most popular in the country. In 2017-2018, social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,801 and had an average of $23,466 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 745 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great social sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the social sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in West Virginia

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$7,050 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia list. Charles Town, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s social sciences degrees to 31 students in 2019-2020.

American Military University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at American Public University System are $7,050.

Read full report on Social Sciences at American Public University System

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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