2022 Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making Over $110k

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General Social Sciences is the 51st most popular major in the country with 19,742 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,665 and had an average of $22,423 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 243 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,875 and $20,857 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 59 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,967 and $17,711 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general social sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general social sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences (Income Over $110k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Boise State University

Boise, Idaho

#1 in overall quality

$15,787 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boise State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boise, Idaho is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s social sciences degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Boise State also made our “Best General Social Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Boise State is $15,787 for Rocky Mountains Region Associate Degree Social Sciences students whose families make more than $110k.

Full Boise State General Social Sciences Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences (Income Over $110k)

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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