2024 Best General Social Sciences Schools in Florida
6Colleges in Florida
606Social Sciences Degrees Awarded
$31,932Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in general social sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #54 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for general social sciences students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 606 degrees in general social sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of general social sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general social sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in Florida.
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Best Schools for General Social Sciences in Florida
The schools below may not offer all types of social sciences degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Florida State University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in general social sciences. Located in the city of Tallahassee, Florida State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #121 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Florida State is a great university overall.
There were about 301 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at Florida State in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the general social sciences degree program at Florida State University earn $4,180 above the typical college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
University of South Florida - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general social sciences. USF Tampa is a fairly large public university located in the city of Tampa. A Best Colleges rank of #229 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means USF Tampa is a great university overall.
There were about 158 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at USF Tampa in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the social sciences program report average early career wages of $31,797.
It's difficult to beat University of Central Florida if you want to pursue a degree in general social sciences. UCF is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Orlando. A Best Colleges rank of #193 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UCF is a great university overall.
There were about 41 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in general social sciences needs to check out Jacksonville University. Located in the large city of Jacksonville, JU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 32nd out of 77 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 11 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at JU in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the social sciences program make an average of $33,138 in the first couple years of their career.
Located in the city of Pensacola, UWF is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 31st out of 77 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 40 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at UWF in the most recent data year. Those general social sciences students who get their degree from The University of West Florida earn $2,396 more than the standard social sciences graduate.
Florida A&M University is a moderately-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee. This university ranks 42nd out of 77 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 43 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at Florida A&M University in the most recent year we have data available. Those general social sciences students who get their degree from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University make $6,938 more than the typical social sciences grad.
Located in the small city of DeLand, Stetson is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 38th out of 77 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were roughly 7 general social sciences students who graduated with this degree at Stetson in the most recent data year.
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).