2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Oregon

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In 2020-2021, 18,997 people earned their degree in general social sciences, making the major the 54th most popular in the United States. 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 Oregon, there were 614 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,881 and $29,822 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,963 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Oregon” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Oregon

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Oregon

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Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon

#7 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Oregon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Oregon list. Western Oregon University is a small public school situated in Monmouth, Oregon. It awarded 16 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

#6 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Portland State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Oregon list. Portland State University is a large school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 256 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused 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

• *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.

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