2024 Best Liberal Arts Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
113Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
23,163Liberal Studies Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in liberal arts, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #2 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 113 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Liberal Arts Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 23,163 degrees in liberal arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The liberal studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Liberal Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for liberal arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Liberal Arts in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the liberal studies degree levels they offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
17 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Liberal Studies
Any student who is interested in liberal arts has to take a look at University of Pennsylvania. Located in the city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were about 29 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Johns Hopkins University if you want to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Johns Hopkins is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Baltimore. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were approximately 39 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Georgetown University if you want to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were roughly 50 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat New York University if you want to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #27 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 632 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #125 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Drexel is a great university overall.
There were roughly 54 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #70 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Villanova is a great university overall.
There were approximately 30 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Villanova in the most recent year we have data available.
Montgomery College is a large public college located in the city of Rockville. A Best Colleges rank of #214 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Montgomery College is a great college overall.
There were roughly 264 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Montgomery College in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of Albany, Excelsior University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 24th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 1877 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Excelsior University in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #253 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means SUNY Stony Brook is a great university overall.
There were roughly 121 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at SUNY Stony Brook in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Annapolis, St. John's Annapolis is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #201 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means St. John's Annapolis is a great college overall.
There were approximately 101 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at St. John's Annapolis in the most recent data year.
St. Joe's is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #157 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means St. Joe's is a great university overall.
There were roughly 26 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at St. Joe's in the most recent data year.
Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #79 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Pitt is a great university overall.
There were roughly 15 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent year we have data available.
Seton Hall is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of South Orange. This university ranks 10th out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were approximately 10 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Seton Hall in the most recent data year.
Located in the midsize city of Columbia, HCC is a public college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 7th out of 36 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 203 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at HCC in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Trenton, TESU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 9th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were approximately 557 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at TESU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the suburb of Glassboro, Rowan is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 119 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Rowan in the most recent year we have data available.
RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Rochester. This school ranks 22nd out of 142 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 16 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at RIT in the most recent year we have data available.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Liberal Arts Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The liberal studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Liberal Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for liberal arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
