by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina” 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 2020-2021, 556,813 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.
Across North Carolina, there were 18,469 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,649 and $14,171 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 104 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts general studies. That schools that top this list have a program in liberal arts general studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina”.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Asheville landed the #1 spot on the list. Asheville, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at University of North Carolina at Asheville
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina. This fairly large school is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it awarded 29 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Wake Forest University landed the #3 spot on the list. Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s liberal arts degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina list. Duke University is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 21 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 14 degrees to qualified masters’s liberal arts students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Liberal Arts General Studies at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Wilmington landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina ranking. University of North Carolina at Wilmington is a fairly large school located in Wilmington, North Carolina that handed out 8 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at University of North Carolina at Wilmington
North Carolina State University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in North Carolina list. North Carolina State University is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 9 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
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