2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas

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Social Sciences is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 5th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 205,984 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,262 and had an average of $23,306 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 900 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,908 and $27,017 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,707 and $16,924 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in social sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in social sciences.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in Arkansas

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Arkansas Northeastern College
Blytheville, Arkansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Arkansas Northeastern College landed the #1 spot on the list. Blytheville, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s social sciences degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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Strayer University - Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Arkansas list. Strayer University - Arkansas is a private for-profit institution located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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