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Most Popular General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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2023 Most Popular General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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Finding the Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate 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 Most Popular General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in the New England Region to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the General Social Sciences program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for social sciences majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Our analysis found University of Connecticut to be the most popular school for general social sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the New England Region . Located in the suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Women make up 71% of the social sciences majors at the school.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Boston. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the large city of Boston, UMass Boston is a public school with a large student population.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at University of Southern Maine helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular general social sciences schools in the New England Region . University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Portland.

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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
Massachusetts 4
Connecticut 7
Rhode Island 2
Maine 0
Vermont 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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