2022 Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Plains States region, there were 518 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,650 and $34,523 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 89 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general social sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree social sciences students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Plains States Region

#1

Bellevue University

Bellevue, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$11,385 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,222 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Social Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bellevue University landed the #1 spot on the list. Bellevue University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Bellevue, Nebraska. It awarded 88 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Bellevue University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Bellevue University are $11,385, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Social Sciences at Bellevue University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Manfred Werner (Tsui).

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