2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in North Dakota

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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 North Dakota, there were 194 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,867 and $28,505 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in North Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in social sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in social sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in North Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for north dakota master’s degree social sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in North Dakota

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in North Dakota list. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s social sciences degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Social Sciences at UND

2

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in North Dakota. Located in Fargo, North Dakota, this fairly large public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s social sciences students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Social Sciences at North Dakota State University - Main Campus

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s 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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