2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Arkansas

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General Social Sciences is the 54th most popular major in the country with 18,997 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,991 and had an average of $24,438 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 16 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general social sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general social sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Arkansas

1

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Pine Bluff, Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas list. UAPB is a public institution located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Southern Arkansas University Main Campus
Magnolia, Arkansas

#18 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Arkansas University Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas. Southern Arkansas University Main Campus is a small school located in Magnolia, Arkansas that handed out 0 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas

#2 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harding University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas. Harding University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Searcy, Arkansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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

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