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

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 Montana” 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 Montana, there were 60 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,250 and $23,604 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,863 and $41,012 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general education programs and 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Montana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Montana.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Montana

#1

Montana State University - Billings

Billings, Montana

#1 in overall quality

$20,243 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University - Billings landed the #1 spot on the list. Montana State University - Billings is a small school located in Billings, Montana that handed out 3 masters’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

Montana State University - Billings also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Montana State University - Billings are $20,243, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on General Education at Montana State University - Billings

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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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