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2023 Best Value Philosophy Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$25,487 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,988 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Philosophy School for You

In 2020-2021, 303 degrees and certificates were awarded to philosophy students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #72 most popular major in the state.

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 Philosophy Schools in North Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value programs for philosophy students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Philosophy Schools in North Carolina

Check out the philosophy programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Philosophy

Our analysis found University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be the best value school for philosophy students who want to pursue a degree in North Carolina. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public school located in the city of Chapel Hill.

UNC Chapel Hill undergraduate students pay an average of $9,028 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Philosophy majors at UNC Chapel Hill take out an average of $19,500 in student loans while working on their egree.

UNC Chapel Hill not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Philosophy Schools in North Carolina list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a great value for philosophy students. UNC Charlotte is a very large public school located in the city of Charlotte.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UNC Charlotte are $7,188 a year. After completing their degree, philosophy graduates from UNC Charlotte carry an average student debtload of $26,000.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UNC Charlotte also is in the top 15% of our Best Philosophy Schools in North Carolina ranking.

Read full report on Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

#3

Duke University

Durham, NC
$60,244 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Philosophy Schools in North Carolina list. Duke is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Duke are $60,244 per year.

Duke not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Philosophy Schools in North Carolina list.

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Best Value Philosophy Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Philosophy Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 218
Virginia 241
Florida 347
Tennessee 149
Kentucky 65
South Carolina 88
Louisiana 104
Arkansas 37
Alabama 99
Mississippi 25
West Virginia 42

One of 3 majors within the area of study, philosophy has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Religious Studies 9,470
Other Philosophy & Religious Studies 285
General Philosophy & Religious Studies 184

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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