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2023 Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in Alabama

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$9,840 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,903 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Social Sciences School for You

With 95 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general social sciences is the #99 most popular major in Alabama.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Social Sciences Schools in Alabama to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Alabama to see which 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 General Social Sciences Schools in Alabama

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for social sciences majors pursuing a .

Best Alabama Schools for Affordable Quality in General Social Sciences

$8,568 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alabama at Birmingham the best value school in Alabama for general social sciences students. Located in the city of Birmingham, UAB is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UAB undergraduate students pay an average of $8,568 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full General Social Sciences at University of Alabama at Birmingham Report

$9,060 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Athens State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best general social sciences schools in Alabama. Located in the fringe town of Athens, Athens State University is a public college with a small student population.

Athens State University undergraduate students pay an average of $9,060 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Athens State University also did well on our Best General Social Sciences Schools in Alabama list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full General Social Sciences at Athens State University Report

#3

Troy University

Troy, AL
$9,312 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Troy University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best general social sciences schools in Alabama. Located in the town of Troy, TROY is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at TROY are $9,312 a year. On average, social sciences graduates from TROY take out $38,125 in student loans while working on their degree.

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$10,620 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of North Alabama is a great value for general social sciences students. UNA is a moderately-sized public school located in the small city of Florence.

UNA undergraduate students pay an average of $10,620 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value General Social Sciences Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 51
Virginia 1,592
North Carolina 114
Florida 606
Tennessee 269
Kentucky 52
South Carolina 64
Louisiana 59
Arkansas 16
Mississippi 55
West Virginia 14

General Social Sciences is one of 12 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government 49,282
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
International Relations & National Security 14,306
Anthropology 11,415

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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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