Ranked #19 in popularity, sociology is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Kansas to determine which ones were the best for sociology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 141 bachelor's degrees in sociology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Sociology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of sociology for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 bachelor'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 bachelor'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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for sociology students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Sociology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kansas list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Sociology in Kansas
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in sociology.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in sociology has to check out University of Kansas. KU is a very large public university located in the small city of Lawrence.
Those sociology students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Kansas make $5,041 more than the standard sociology graduate.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in sociology needs to look into Kansas State University. K -State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Manhattan.
Those sociology students who get their bachelor's degree from Kansas State University make $5,323 more than the average sociology grad.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in sociology needs to look into Emporia State University. ESU is a small public university located in the town of Emporia.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the sociology program report average early career income of $29,313.
It is hard to beat Fort Hays State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in sociology. FHSU is a large public university located in the remote town of Hays.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the sociology program earn about $38,075 for their early career.
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).