by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.
With 205,984 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, social sciences is the 5th most popular major in the United States. 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 Maine, there were 937 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,781 and $20,866 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 4 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #1 spot on the list. Unity College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Unity, Maine. It awarded 17 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 10 masters’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school awarded 167 diplomas to qualified masters’s social sciences students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Thomas College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine. Located in Waterville, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s social sciences students in 2020-2021.
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