Best Sociology Master’s Degree Colleges in Pennsylvania

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Pennsylvania that made our Best Sociology Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Sociology School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of sociology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality sociology program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on sociology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other sociology 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 easy is it for sociology 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 sociology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for sociology students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for Pennsylvania

On account of lacking data, we couldn't show you the sociology quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in Pennsylvania that both offer sociology and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Sociology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Sociology ranking.

Best Sociology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Sociology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	121
Maryland	193	28
New Jersey	188	20
District of Columbia	154	13
Delaware	109	2

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Sociology Related Rankings by Major

One of 13 majors within the Social Sciences area of study, Sociology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Sociology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Sociology	11
Applied/Public Sociology	4

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Geography & Cartography	108
Economics	96
International Relations & National Security	74
Other Social Sciences	53
Political Science & Government	47
Anthropology	34
Archeology	8
Urban Studies	5
General Social Sciences	4
Demography & Population Studies	4

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kontos. More about our data sources and methodologies.