2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Liberal Arts General Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 1st of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 559,661 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 14,701 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,856 and $15,588 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great liberal arts general studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the liberal arts general studies 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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The liberal arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia”.

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Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia doctor’s degree liberal arts students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Virginia

#1

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$37,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$55,547 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia list. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s liberal arts degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

GMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at GMU are $37,410.

Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at GMU

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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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