2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Texas

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Texas, there were 54,014 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,924 and $14,688 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Texas.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Texas

#1

The University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$28,610 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$52,107 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Dallas. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Texas. Richardson, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s liberal arts degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Dallas, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Texas at Dallas are $28,610.

Read more about Liberal Arts General Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas

#2

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$47,478 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Texas. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

SMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at SMU are $47,478, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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