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2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$37,580 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,988 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 556,813 degrees and certificates were awarded to liberal arts general studies students, making the major the most popular in the country.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for liberal arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Check out the liberal arts graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Liberal Arts General Studies

Our 2023 rankings named Indiana University - Southeast the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for liberal arts general studies students working on their graduate certificate. Indiana University - Southeast is a small public school located in the large suburb of New Albany.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Indiana University - Southeast are $18,592 a year.

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#2

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value liberal arts general studies schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 per year. While working on their Graduate Certificate, liberal arts majors at Northwestern accumulate an average of around $21,333 in student debt.

Northwestern also made our Best Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, coming in at #1.

Full Liberal Arts General Studies at Northwestern University Report

Best Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best liberal arts general studies colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 9,711
Ohio 11,432
Illinois 18,292
Indiana 3,815
Wisconsin 2,376

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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