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2023 Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$29,871 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$46,931 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master's Degree School for You

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities is the #12 most popular major in Pennsylvania with 3,589 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Check out the liberal arts / sciences and humanities master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Liberal Arts & Humanities

#1

Villanova University

Villanova, PA

Our 2023 rankings named Villanova University the best value school in Pennsylvania for liberal arts / sciences and humanities students working on their master’s degree. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Villanova.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Villanova are $21,199 a year.

Villanova not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Liberal Arts & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list.

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#2

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

Out of the 4 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Temple graduate students pay an average of $18,278 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#3

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

Out of the 4 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Drexel are $37,074 per year.

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#4

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Pennsylvania helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value liberal arts / sciences and humanities schools in Pennsylvania. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UPenn are $42,932 per year.

UPenn did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Liberal Arts & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list.

Full Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at University of Pennsylvania Report

Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Jersey 9,619
New York 19,150
Maryland 9,515
Delaware 649
District of Columbia 145

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Liberal Arts General Studies 556,813

Related Major Annual Graduates
Visual & Performing Arts 149,215
English Language & Literature 54,635
Foreign Languages & Linguistics 33,333
Theology & Religious Vocations 27,459
Philosophy & Religious Studies 19,993

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 Jacques Sablet (Switzerland, Morges, 1749-1803).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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