2022 Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,482 people earned their degree in rhetoric and composition, making the major the 232nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 462 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in rhetoric and composition. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent rhetoric and composition programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the rhetoric and composition program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Goucher College

Baltimore, Maryland

#3 in overall quality

$9,047 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

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 Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Goucher College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Goucher also made our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #3. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Goucher are $9,047.

Read full report on Rhetoric & Composition at Goucher College

#2

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

West Chester, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$16,758 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Chester University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in West Chester, Pennsylvania, this fairly large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s rhetoric and composition students in 2019-2020.

WCUPA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at West Chester University of Pennsylvania are $16,758, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full WCUPA Rhetoric & Composition Report

#3

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$47,326 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s rhetoric and composition degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Carnegie Mellon University are $47,326, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Rhetoric & Composition at Carnegie Mellon University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition

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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