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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s in Kansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 559,661 liberal arts general studies students received their degree, making the major the 1st most popular in the country. 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 Kansas, there were 6,557 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,148 and $14,639 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,499 and $30,950 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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Kansas

#1

Baker University

Baldwin City, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$11,844 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$49,644 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baker University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in Kansas list. This small school is located in Baldwin City, Kansas, and it awarded 11 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baker, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Baker are $11,844, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at Baker

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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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