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2023 Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$20,914 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,818 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Undergraduate Certificate 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which undergraduate certificate 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

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

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Liberal Arts & Humanities

Our 2023 rankings named Harrisburg Area Community College the best value school in Pennsylvania for liberal arts / sciences and humanities students working on their undergraduate certificate. HACC is a large public school located in the small city of Harrisburg.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at HACC are $8,295 per year.

Full Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Harrisburg Area Community College Report

The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Community College of Allegheny County helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value liberal arts / sciences and humanities schools in Pennsylvania. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, CCAC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at CCAC are $8,323 a year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Delaware County Community College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the suburb of Media, Delaware County Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Delaware County Community College are $9,900 per year.

Full Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Delaware County Community College Report

#4

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Drexel are $57,136 per year.

Drexel not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Liberal Arts & Humanities Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list.

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

Explore all the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Colleges 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).

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