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2023 Best Value Science, Technology & Society Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$34,404 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Science, Technology & Society School for You

With 4 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, science, technology and society is the #242 most popular major in California.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Science, Technology & Society Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which programs offered the best value experiences for science, tech and society students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Science, Technology & Society Schools in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Science, Technology & Society Colleges.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Science, Technology & Society

#1

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA
$7,304 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named San Francisco State University the best value school in California for science, technology and society students. Located in the large city of San Francisco, SFSU is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at SFSU are $7,304 a year.

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$61,503 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Science, Technology & Society Schools in California list. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

USC undergraduate students pay an average of $61,503 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

USC also claimed a spot on our Best Science, Technology & Society Schools in California list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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State Degrees Awarded

Science, Technology & Society is one of 36 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 2,491
Sustainability Science 1,547
Nutrition Science 1,496
Behavioral Science 1,358
Computational Science 1,063

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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