2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Maryland

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking - to help you make that decision.

With 559,661 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, liberal arts general studies is the 1st most popular major in the United States. 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 Maryland, there were 9,621 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,691 and $13,992 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 95 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the liberal arts general studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Maryland

#1

Towson University

Towson, Maryland

#3 in overall quality

$18,972 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,025 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Towson University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maryland. Towson is a large school located in Towson, Maryland that handed out 11 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Towson also made our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at Towson are $18,972, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

St John's College

Annapolis, Maryland

#2 in overall quality

$19,316 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,193 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St John’s College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maryland. St. John’s Annapolis is a small school located in Annapolis, Maryland that handed out 27 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

St. John’s Annapolis also made our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at St. John’s Annapolis are $19,316, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#3

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$59,425 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$57,318 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maryland list. Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a large population, and it awarded 35 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Johns Hopkins, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Johns Hopkins University are $59,425, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies

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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