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2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in Missouri

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$39,722 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$37,090 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Social Sciences School for You

In 2020-2021, 10 degrees and certificates were awarded to general social sciences students who went to a Missouri college or university. This makes it the #152 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

The Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in Missouri ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Missouri to see which ones offered the best value programs for social sciences students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in Missouri

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for social sciences majors pursuing a .

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality in General Social Sciences

$11,475 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Missouri - Columbia to be the best value school for general social sciences students who want to pursue a degree in Missouri. Located in the city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public college with a very large student population.

Mizzou undergraduate students pay an average of $11,475 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Mizzou not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best General Social Sciences Schools in Missouri list.

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#2

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis, MO
$48,824 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Saint Louis University is a great value for general social sciences students. SLU is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Saint Louis.

SLU undergraduate students pay an average of $48,824 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

SLU also made our Best General Social Sciences Schools in Missouri list, coming in at #5.

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$58,866 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in Missouri list. WUSTL is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Saint Louis.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WUSTL are $58,866 per year.

WUSTL did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best General Social Sciences Schools in Missouri list.

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Best Value General Social Sciences Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value General Social Sciences Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Iowa 6
Nebraska 115
North Dakota 0

One of 12 majors within the area of study, general social sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
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 averages are for the top 3 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Manfred Werner (Tsui).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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