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2022 Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making Over $110k

1 Ranked Colleges
1 Degrees Awarded
$57,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Master's in Massachusetts For Those Making Over $110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making Over $110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Massachusetts, there were 252 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,550 and $28,050 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general social sciences programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree social sciences students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences (Income Over $110k) in Massachusetts

#1

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making Over $110k list. Boston University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston U also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666.

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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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