2022 Best Value Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Liberal Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 2nd of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 365,980 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across South Carolina, there were 5,418 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent liberal arts 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 liberal arts 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 Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in South Carolina

#1

Coastal Carolina University

Conway, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$19,836 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coastal Carolina University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina. Coastal Carolina University is a fairly large public school situated in Conway, South Carolina. It awarded 8 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Coastal Carolina University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Coastal Carolina University are $19,836, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Liberal Arts at Coastal Carolina University

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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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