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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Maryland

7 Ranked Colleges
1,115 Degrees Awarded
$21,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Education Schools for a Master's in Maryland

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 1,115 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland master’s degree education students.

Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Maryland

#1

Goucher College

Baltimore, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Goucher College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s education degrees to 97 students in 2019-2020.

Goucher also made our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Goucher College are $9,047, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Notre Dame of Maryland University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s education degrees to 170 students in 2019-2020.

NDMU also made our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #3. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at NDMU are $11,046.

Read more about General Education at NDMU

#3

Salisbury University

Salisbury, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salisbury University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland list. Salisbury University is a public institution located in Salisbury, Maryland. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 29 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Salisbury also took the #4 spot in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Salisbury are $15,543.

Read full report on General Education at Salisbury University

#4

Frostburg State University

Frostburg, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Frostburg State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland. Frostburg State University is a small school located in Frostburg, Maryland that handed out 84 masters’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

Frostburg State also made our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #6. Average graduate tuition and fees at Frostburg State University are $12,790, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - Baltimore County landed the #5 spot on the list. UMBC is a fairly large school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 50 masters’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMBC, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maryland - Baltimore County are $21,078, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#6

Towson University

Towson, Maryland

Towson University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland list. Towson University is a large public school situated in Towson, Maryland. It awarded 46 masters’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

Towson also made our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #7. Average graduate tuition and fees at Towson are $18,972, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Education at Towson University

#7

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

Johns Hopkins University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Maryland list. Johns Hopkins University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a large population, and it awarded 618 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maryland master’s degree education students list, Johns Hopkins has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Johns Hopkins are $59,425, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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