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Most Popular General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

2023 Most Popular General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

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Finding the Best General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

General Social Sciences is the #44 most popular major in Maryland with 428 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular General Social Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Maryland to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Maryland to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the General Social Sciences program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for social sciences majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Our analysis found University of Maryland - College Park to be the most popular school for general social sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Maryland. UMCP is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of College Park.

Women make up 46% of the social sciences majors at the school.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Maryland - Baltimore County is a great place for general social sciences students working on their graduate certificate. UMBC is a large public school located in the suburb of Baltimore.

About 57% of the students majoring in social sciences at the school are women while 43% are male.

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Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Johns Hopkins University is a great place for general social sciences students working on their graduate certificate. Johns Hopkins is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.

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Best General Social Sciences Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Most Popular General Social Sciences Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 265
New York 1,113
New Jersey 738
District of Columbia 1
Delaware 147

One of 12 majors within the area of study, general social sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 3 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).

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