2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 559,661 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 District of Columbia, there were 120 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,600 and $35,075 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,324 and $136,457 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 / sciences and humanities 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 / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia doctor’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in District of Columbia

#1

Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$53,591 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgetown University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia. Georgetown University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 doctorate’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees to qualified students.

Georgetown also took the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Doctor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Georgetown University are $53,591, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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.

Credits

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