2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income Over $110k) in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Vallue Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 1,300 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,600 and $24,415 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income Over $110k) in Maryland

#1

Goucher College

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$25,716 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Goucher College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making Over $110k list. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s education students in 2019-2020.

Goucher also made our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $25,716 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Education students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Goucher.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about General Education at Goucher

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income Over $110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income Over $110k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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