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2023 Best Value Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$12,198 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,732 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, social sciences students earned 518 degrees and certificates from a Wisconsin school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Social Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Wisconsin to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for social sciences students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

2023 Best Value Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin

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

Best Wisconsin Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Social Sciences

Our 2023 rankings named University of Wisconsin - Madison the best value school in Wisconsin for social sciences students working on their master’s degree. UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Madison.

UW - Madison graduate students pay an average of $12,175 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Social Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin list.

Full Social Sciences at University of Wisconsin - Madison Report

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value social sciences schools in Wisconsin. UWM is a very large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UWM are $12,220 a year.

Read full report on Social Sciences at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Best Value Social Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Social Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 1,111
Indiana 290
Ohio 575
Michigan 441

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

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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