2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” 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 the Rocky Mountains region, there were 274 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,648 and $26,597 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#18 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is a large public school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 8 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Social Sciences at CU Anschutz

2

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, Colorado

#22 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Colorado landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Northern Colorado is a fairly large school located in Greeley, Colorado that handed out 0 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Northern Colorado General Social Sciences Report

2

Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado Mesa University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Colorado Mesa is a medium-sized school located in Grand Junction, Colorado that handed out 5 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at Colorado Mesa University

• 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.

Credits

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