2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best General Social Sciences Master's Degree School for You
General Social Sciences is the #153 most popular major in the country with 745 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value General Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you.
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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Best General Social Sciences Master's Degree School
Our analysis found Harvard University to be the best value school for general social sciences students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the New England Region . Located in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Harvard are $52,170 a year.
Harvard also took the #5 spot in our Best General Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region rankings.
Best General Social Sciences Colleges by State
Explore the best general social sciences schools for a specific state in the New England region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Massachusetts | 4 |
Connecticut | 7 |
Rhode Island | 2 |
Maine | 0 |
Vermont | 0 |
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Majors Related to Social Sciences
One of 12 majors within the area of study, general social sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Economics | 6,173 |
International Relations & National Security | 5,010 |
Political Science & Government | 2,664 |
Geography & Cartography | 2,315 |
Sociology | 1,907 |
Notes and References
*These values are for the top school 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).
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