2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in North Carolina (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 North Carolina, there were 274 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,575 and $29,518 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 135 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$30,248 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$46,538 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid list. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a large school located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that handed out 20 masters’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

UNC Chapel Hill did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNC Chapel Hill are $30,248, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Education at UNC Chapel Hill

#2

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, North Carolina

#3 in overall quality

$17,821 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,598 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Carolina University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid. WCU is a fairly large school located in Cullowhee, North Carolina that handed out 48 masters’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

WCU also took the #3 spot in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WCU are $17,821, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full WCU General Education Report

#3

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Wilmington, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$21,286 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid. University of North Carolina at Wilmington is a public institution located in Wilmington, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 65 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UNCW also made our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Carolina at Wilmington are $21,286.

Read more about General Education at UNCW

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (With Aid)

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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