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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Louisiana” 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 Louisiana, there were 407 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 3 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 Louisiana

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

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

1

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

#17 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Orleans. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Louisiana list. University of New Orleans is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s sociology degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Sociology at University of New Orleans

2

Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, Louisiana

#12 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Louisiana University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Louisiana list. Southeastern Louisiana University is a fairly large school located in Hammond, Louisiana that handed out 3 masters’s sociology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southeastern Sociology Report

3

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #3 spot on the list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s sociology degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Sociology at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sociology in the Southeast Region
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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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