2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sociology in Utah

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Utah” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Sociology is the 25th most popular major in the country with 38,475 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, sociology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,426 and had an average of $24,587 in loans still to pay off.

Across Utah, there were 398 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,323 and $15,529 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,613 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Utah” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in sociology. That schools that top this list have a program in sociology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Utah

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sociology in Utah

1

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#1 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Provo. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Utah. Located in Provo, Utah, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s sociology students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Sociology at BYU

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#3 overall quality in Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Utah list. This large school is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it awarded 5 masters’s sociology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Utah Sociology Report

3

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#5 overall quality in Utah

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Logan, Utah, this large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s sociology students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Read full report on Sociology at Utah State University

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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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