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2022 Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
145 Degrees Awarded
$12,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Other Social Sciences is the 175th most popular major in the country with 2,491 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, other social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,168 and had an average of $25,972 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 166 other social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,733 and $26,865 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 145 other social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in other social sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other social sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other social sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Social Sciences (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 2 bachelors’s other social sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UChicago, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $2,712 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Social Sciences students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UChicago.

The low student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school awarded 30 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other social sciences students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW - Green Bay, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Other Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $11,337 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Social Sciences students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Wisconsin - Green Bay.

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#3

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Central Michigan is a fairly large school located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan that handed out 70 bachelors’s other social sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Central Michigan, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Other Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $11,598 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree other social sciences students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Central Michigan University.

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#4

Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kalamazoo College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other social sciences degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

K College also took the #4 spot in our “Best Other Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $13,393 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Social Sciences students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend K College.

The low student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#5

Benedictine University

Lisle, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Benedictine University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Lisle, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other social sciences degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Benedictine U also made our “Best Other Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend Benedictine U is $22,862 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree other social sciences students whose families make $0-$30k.

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

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Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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