2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan” 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 Michigan, there were 14,373 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,542 and $14,870 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,608 and $41,198 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts general studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent liberal arts general studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the liberal arts general studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Michigan

#1

University of Michigan - Dearborn

Dearborn, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$25,072 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Dearborn. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan. Dearborn, Michigan is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

UM Dearborn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UM Dearborn are $25,072, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full University of Michigan - Dearborn Liberal Arts General Studies Report

#2

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$24,648 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakland University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Michigan list. Oakland University is a fairly large public school situated in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It awarded 2 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Oakland did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Oakland University are $24,648.

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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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