2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied/Public Sociology

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied/Public Sociology Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 49 people earned their degree in applied/public sociology, making the major the 1106th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 applied/public sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied/Public Sociology Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in applied/public sociology. That schools that top this list have a program in applied/public sociology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied/Public Sociology Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied/Public Sociology Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied/Public Sociology

1

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Carolina University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied/Public Sociology Major list. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s applied/public sociology degrees to 36 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied/Public Sociology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s applied/public sociology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Applied/Public Sociology at Texas State

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.