2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in South Carolina

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 South Carolina, there were 5,630 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,858 and $15,560 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great liberal arts / sciences and humanities programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the liberal arts / sciences and humanities program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in South Carolina

#1

Coastal Carolina University

Conway, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$19,836 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Coastal Carolina University landed the #1 spot on the list. Conway, South Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Coastal Carolina University also made our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Coastal Carolina University are $19,836, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Coastal Carolina University

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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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