2022 Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Southeast region, there were 174 other social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,100 and $27,201 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 other social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other social sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other social sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Social Sciences in the Southeast Region

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$30,547 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Social Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s other social sciences degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region doctor’s degree other social sciences students list, Virginia Tech has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Other Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547.

Read full report on Other Social Sciences at Virginia Tech

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

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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