Best Sociology Master’s Degree Colleges in the New England Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the New England Region that made our Best Sociology Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Sociology School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of sociology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality sociology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on sociology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other sociology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for sociology 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 sociology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for sociology students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the New England Region

Because of lacking data, we were not able to show you the sociology quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the New England Region that both offer sociology and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Sociology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Sociology ranking.

Best Sociology Colleges by State

Explore the best sociology colleges for a specific state in the New England Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	222	42
Connecticut	153	14
Rhode Island	127	0
New Hampshire	108	4

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Sociology Related Rankings by Major

One of 13 majors within the Social Sciences area of study, Sociology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Sociology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Sociology	60

Most Popular Majors Related to Sociology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	881
International Relations & National Security	605
Political Science & Government	151
General Social Sciences	120
Geography & Cartography	74
Anthropology	62
Urban Studies	56
Other Social Sciences	21
Archeology	19

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kontos. More about our data sources and methodologies.