2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best General Social Sciences Master's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 4 degrees and certificates were awarded to general social sciences students who went to a Massachusetts college or university. This makes it the #209 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

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 Massachusetts to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

The following school tops our list of the Best Value General Social Sciences Master's Degree Colleges.

Best General Social Sciences Master's Degree School

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

2 Master's Degrees

#2 in Quality in Massachusetts

$52,170 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Harvard University the best value school in Massachusetts for general social sciences students working on their master’s degree. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Harvard are $52,170 per year.

Harvard did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best General Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list.

Read full report on General Social Sciences at Harvard University

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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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Manfred Werner (Tsui).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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