by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Social Sciences is the 44th most popular major in the country with 18,762 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Maryland, there were 378 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 246 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coppin State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland. Coppin State University is a small school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 11 bachelors’s general social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland Global Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland. Adelphi, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general social sciences degrees to 210 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Frostburg State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland list. Frostburg State University is located in Frostburg, Maryland and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s general social sciences degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Towson University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland. Towson is a large public school situated in Towson, Maryland. It awarded 15 bachelors’s general social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Social Sciences Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #5 spot on the list. Johns Hopkins is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 0 bachelors’s general social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Johns Hopkins University General Social Sciences Report
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