2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
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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 Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 the Southwest region, there were 720 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,880 and $23,351 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general social sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general social sciences.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Southwest Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Dallas landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Richardson, Texas, this large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s social sciences students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Read full report on General Social Sciences at UT Dallas
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 2 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe General Social Sciences Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s social sciences degrees to 6 students 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 University of Arizona
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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
- *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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