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Sociology at Macalester College

Sociology at Macalester College

If you plan to study sociology, take a look at what Macalester College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Macalester is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota and approximately 2,049 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Sociology section at the bottom of this page.

Macalester Sociology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology

Macalester Sociology Rankings

The sociology major at Macalester is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Sociology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Sociology Student Demographics at Macalester

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the sociology majors at Macalester College.

Macalester Sociology Bachelor’s Program

64% Women
14% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 36% of sociology bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% went to women. The typical sociology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% men. So male students are more repesented at Macalester since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

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About 86% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in sociology at Macalester are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Macalester College with a bachelor's in sociology.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 12
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Careers That Sociology Grads May Go Into

A degree in sociology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MN, the home state for Macalester College.

Occupation Jobs in MN Average Salary in MN
Managers 9,350 $128,590
Sociology Professors 270 $81,490

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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