2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in Nebraska

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Nebraska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Nebraska, there were 838 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,582 and $24,859 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,713 and $18,510 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Nebraska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Nebraska

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

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

1

Western Nebraska Community College
Scottsbluff, Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Nebraska Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Nebraska list. WNCC is a small school located in Scottsbluff, Nebraska that handed out 3 associates’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Social Sciences at Western Nebraska Community College

2

Northeast Community College
Norfolk, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeast Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Nebraska. Northeast Community College is located in Norfolk, Nebraska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s social sciences degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Social Sciences at Northeast Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Social Sciences

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

• *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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