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2023 Best Value Social Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$39,643 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$62,624 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Social Sciences Doctor's Degree School for You

Social Sciences is the #13 most popular major in New Jersey with 349 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Social Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in New Jersey to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for social sciences students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Social Sciences Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best New Jersey Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Social Sciences

Our analysis found Rutgers University - New Brunswick to be the best value school for social sciences students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in New Jersey. Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public school with a very large student population.

Rutgers New Brunswick graduate students pay an average of $20,495 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Princeton University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey list. Located in the small city of Princeton, Princeton is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Princeton are $58,790 a year.

Princeton also made our Best Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Social Sciences at Princeton University

Best Value Social Sciences Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Social Sciences Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 2,378
Pennsylvania 1,001
Maryland 1,347
District of Columbia 1,630
Delaware 102

Social Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Economics 6,173
International Relations & National Security 5,010
Political Science & Government 2,664
Geography & Cartography 2,315
Sociology 1,907
Anthropology 1,446
Criminology 936
General Social Sciences 745
Other Social Sciences 532
Urban Studies 432
Archeology 66
Demography & Population Studies 66

Majors Similar to Social Sciences

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Psychology 42,013
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 AndrГ© KГјnzelmann.

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