2024 Best Other Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
83Master's Degrees
a master's degree in other social sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #271 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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Other Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 83 master's degrees in other social sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Other Social Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
The other social sciences master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host 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 many resources a school devotes to other social sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other other social sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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 other social sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for other social sciences students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Other Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Notes and References
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).