2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Sociology is the 20th most popular major in the country with 38,394 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Michigan, there were 551 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,121 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in sociology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sociology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan”.

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sociology in Michigan

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#1 overall quality in Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan list. Ann Arbor, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s sociology degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. 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%.

Read more about Sociology at U-M

2

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

#16 overall quality in Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan list. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s sociology students in 2020-2021.

Full Eastern Michigan Sociology Report

3

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

#6 overall quality in Michigan

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s sociology degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full WMU Sociology Report

4

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#2 overall quality in Michigan

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #4 spot on the list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s sociology degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Michigan State Sociology Report

5

Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

#12 overall quality in Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Michigan list. Wayne State is a large school located in Detroit, Michigan that handed out 1 masters’s sociology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sociology at Wayne 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

• *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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