2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Political Science & Government in South Carolina

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 “Best Value Political Science Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 48,597 people earned their degree in political science and government, making the major the 21st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, political science and government graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,977 and had an average of $22,822 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Carolina, there were 736 political science and government graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,950 and $25,658 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 political science and government graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great political science and government programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the political science and government program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Political Science Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for south carolina master’s degree political science students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Political Science & Government in South Carolina

#1

Citadel Military College of South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$18,540 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Citadel Military College of South Carolina. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Political Science Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s political science degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

The Citadel also took the #1 spot in our “Best Political Science & Government Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at The Citadel are $18,540, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Political Science & Government at Citadel Military College of South Carolina

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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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