2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Master's Degree Schools in Maryland
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master's Degree School for You
Liberal Arts General Studies is the most popular major in Maryland with 9,515 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Master's Degree Schools in Maryland to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Maryland to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for liberal arts students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Liberal Arts General Studies
Our 2023 rankings named St John’s College the best value school in Maryland for liberal arts general studies students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Annapolis, St. John's Annapolis is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at St. John’s Annapolis are $19,316 a year.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Johns Hopkins University is a great value for liberal arts general studies students working on their master’s degree. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins graduate students pay an average of $61,202 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Johns Hopkins is ranked #1 for overall quality for liberal arts in Maryland.
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Explore all the Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 3,589 |
| New York | 19,150 |
| New Jersey | 9,619 |
| District of Columbia | 145 |
| Delaware | 649 |
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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.