2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Sociology in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Sociology Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 37,747 people earned their degree in sociology, making the major the 20th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 1,307 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality sociology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the sociology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Sociology Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Sociology Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Sociology in the Plains States Region

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$19,252 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Sociology Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s sociology degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Sociology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South Dakota State is $19,252 for plains states region associate degree sociology students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Sociology at South Dakota State

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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