2024 Best General Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general social sciences, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #67 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 251 bachelor's degrees in general social sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general social sciences students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general social sciences students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt general social sciences students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general social sciences related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general social sciences students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Social Sciences Schools

The social sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Social Sciences in New Jersey

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general social sciences.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Bachelor's in Social Sciences

1

Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ

71 Annual Graduates

$25,500 Median Student Debt

Ramapo College of New Jersey is a great choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in general social sciences. Located in the suburb of Mahwah, Ramapo College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general social sciences from Ramapo College of New Jersey

2

Thomas Edison State University
Trenton, NJ

172 Annual Graduates

$42,906 Median Starting Salary

$21,384 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in general social sciences has to take a look at Thomas Edison State University. TESU is a moderately-sized public university located in the small city of Trenton.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the social sciences program make around $42,906 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in general social sciences from Thomas Edison State University

Best General Social Sciences Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best General Social Sciences Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	923
Pennsylvania	274	146
Maryland	207	246
Delaware	130	147
District of Columbia	126	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Social Sciences

General Social Sciences is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Social Sciences Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Social Sciences	251

Majors Similar to Social Sciences

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	761
Political Science & Government	721
Sociology	511
International Relations & National Security	118
Anthropology	112
Geography & Cartography	53
Other Social Sciences	46
Urban Studies	12

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Manfred Werner (Tsui). More about our data sources and methodologies.