2024 Best General Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
4
Colleges in the Southeast Region
116
Master's Degrees
a master's degree in
general social sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #233 out of 1172 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 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for general social sciences students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 116 master's degrees in general social sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Social Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
The general social sciences master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general social sciences program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 master'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.
- 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 master's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Social Sciences Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.