by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Tennessee” 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 Tennessee, there were 428 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,049 and $26,889 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Tennessee” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in sociology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in sociology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Tennessee” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee master’s degree sociology students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, East Tennessee State University landed the #1 spot on the list. East Tennessee State University is located in Johnson City, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s sociology degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Memphis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Tennessee list. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s sociology students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middle Tennessee State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Tennessee list. This large school is located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and it awarded 5 masters’s sociology degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Tennessee. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s sociology degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s sociology degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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