2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Humanities in New York

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Humanities Schools for a Master’s in New York” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 23,605 people earned their degree in humanities, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States.

Across New York, there were 3,964 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 52 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,029 and $47,933 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Humanities Schools for a Master’s in New York” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in humanities. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great humanities programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the humanities program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Humanities Schools for a Master’s in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Humanities Schools for a Master’s in New York.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Humanities in New York

#1

St John's University - New York

Queens, New York

#2 in overall quality

$30,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St John’s University - New York. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Humanities Schools for a Master’s in New York. St John’s University - New York is a large school located in Queens, New York that handed out 11 masters’s humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

STJ also took the #2 spot in our “Best Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at STJ are $30,666, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Humanities at STJ

#2

New York University

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$36,892 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Humanities Schools for a Master’s in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the #2 spot on the list. NYU is a private not-for-profit institution located in New York, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 28 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NYU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in New York” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at NYU are $36,892.

Full NYU Humanities Report

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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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