2024 Best Sociology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
27
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
179
Master's Degrees
a master's degree in
sociology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #119 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 27 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Sociology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 179 master's degrees in sociology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Sociology School for Your Master's Degree
The sociology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to sociology students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of sociology students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized sociology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for sociology students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Sociology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.