When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in other social sciences sits in the middle of the road, ranking #167 out of 343 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Other Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 47 master's degrees in other social sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on other social sciences students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of other social sciences 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for other social sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other social sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other social sciences students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Other Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in other social sciences needs to take a look at Columbus State University. CSU is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Columbus.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the other social sciences program earn an average of $45,943 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
