2022 Best Value Applied/Public Sociology Schools for a Master’s

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Applied/Public Sociology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 36 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 applied/public sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great applied/public sociology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the applied/public sociology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Applied/Public Sociology Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree applied/public sociology students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied/Public Sociology

#1

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Applied/Public Sociology Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. San Marcos, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s applied/public sociology degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Texas State also made our “Best Applied/Public Sociology Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas State are $17,040, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Applied/Public Sociology at Texas State University

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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