by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Iowa, there were 36 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,440 and $24,954 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general social sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in general social sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Upper Iowa University landed the #1 spot on the list. Upper Iowa University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fayette, Iowa. It awarded 23 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Central College landed the #2 spot on the list. Central is a small school located in Pella, Iowa that handed out 4 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend William Penn University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa. Located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s social sciences students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Wartburg College landed the #4 spot on the list. Wartburg is a small school located in Waverly, Iowa that handed out 0 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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