Best Sociology Master’s Degree Colleges in Massachusetts

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

Choosing a Great Sociology School for Your Master's Degree

The sociology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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 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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to sociology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of sociology 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 much debt sociology 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 sociology related body.

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

Insufficient Data for Massachusetts

Regrettably , we did not have adequate data to produce a ranking of the top quality colleges for sociology in Massachusetts. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Massachusetts that both offer sociology and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Sociology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Sociology ranking.

Best Sociology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Sociology Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	153	14
Rhode Island	127	0
New Hampshire	108	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Sociology

Sociology is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Sociology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Sociology	30

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	713
International Relations & National Security	453
Political Science & Government	101
Urban Studies	56
Anthropology	48
Geography & Cartography	46
Other Social Sciences	21
Archeology	13
General Social Sciences	3

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.