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

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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 Florida, there were 606 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,932 and $25,729 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,198 and $0 respectively.

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

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

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

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

1

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Tallahassee, Florida

$38,870 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Florida. This medium-sized school is located in Tallahassee, Florida, and it awarded 43 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Social Sciences at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

2

Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, Florida

#19 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jacksonville University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Florida list. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s social sciences degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

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