by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Iowa for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 “Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Iowa for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general social sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful general social sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Iowa for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa bachelor’s degree social sciences students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Upper Iowa University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Iowa for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Fayette, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 23 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s social sciences students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Iowa for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Pella, Iowa, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend William Penn University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Iowa for a Bachelor’s list. This small school is located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wartburg College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Iowa for a Bachelor’s list. Wartburg is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Waverly, Iowa. It awarded 0 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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