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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Applied/Public Sociology Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Applied/Public Sociology Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in applied/public sociology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in applied/public sociology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Applied/Public Sociology Major for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Applied/Public Sociology Major for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Applied/Public Sociology Major for a Bachelor’s list. ECU is a large school located in Greenville, North Carolina that handed out 36 bachelors’s applied/public sociology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Applied/Public Sociology at East Carolina University

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Applied/Public Sociology Major for a Bachelor’s list. San Marcos, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s applied/public sociology degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about 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.