Best General Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best General Social Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great General Social Sciences School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of general social sciences for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general social sciences students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general social sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt general social sciences students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general social sciences related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general social sciences students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Sad to say, we did not have enough info to make a ranking of the quality schools for general social sciences in the United States. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer general social sciences and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

General Social Sciences by Region

View the Best General Social Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Social Sciences

General Social Sciences is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Social Sciences Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Research Methodology & Quantitative Methods	15
General Social Sciences	11

Majors Similar to Social Sciences

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	1,385
Political Science & Government	737
Sociology	602
Anthropology	472
Geography & Cartography	199
International Relations & National Security	94
Other Social Sciences	83
Urban Studies	44
Demography & Population Studies	15
Archeology	9

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.