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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in New Hampshire to determine which ones were the best for liberal arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 209 degrees in liberal arts to qualified students.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Liberal Arts Schools in New Hampshire list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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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.
It is hard to beat Nashua Community College if you wish to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Located in the city of Nashua, Nashua Community College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 15th out of 17 schools for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were roughly 17 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Nashua Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat NHTI-Concord's Community College if you wish to pursue a degree in liberal arts. NHTI is a small public college located in the town of Concord. A Best Colleges rank of #1239 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means NHTI is a great college overall.
There were about 22 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at NHTI in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts if you want to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Magdalen College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of Warner.
There were about 12 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Magdalen College in the most recent data year.
Great Bay Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in liberal arts. Great Bay Community College is a small public college located in the small suburb of Portsmouth. This college ranks 17th out of 17 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were about 30 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Great Bay Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
