2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in Georgia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Georgia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 366,996 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, liberal arts is the 2nd most popular major in the United States.

Across Georgia, there were 6,524 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in liberal arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in liberal arts.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Georgia

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia master’s degree liberal studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in Georgia

1

Clayton State University
Morrow, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Clayton State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Clayton State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Morrow, Georgia. It awarded 7 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Clayton State University Liberal Arts Report

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Emory is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s liberal studies degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Liberal Arts at Emory

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.