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2023 Most Popular Online General Social Sciences Schools

4 Colleges
$32,991 Avg Salary
$24,438 Avg Student Debt

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. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online General Social Sciences Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular online programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for social sciences majors pursuing an online .

Our 2023 rankings named University of Maryland - College Park the most popular online school in the United States for general social sciences students. UMCP is a very large public school located in the suburb of College Park.

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The excellent online programs at University of Alabama at Birmingham helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best general social sciences schools in the United States. UAB is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham.

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#3

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Online General Social Sciences Schools list. Johns Hopkins is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Online General Social Sciences Schools list. UOPX - Arizona is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the city of Tempe.

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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 4 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).

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