2022 Best Value Intelligence Schools for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Intelligence Schools for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,989 people earned their degree in general intelligence, making the major the 354th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 381 general intelligence graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general intelligence programs and 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 general intelligence program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Intelligence Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree intelligence students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Intelligence

#1

Mercyhurst University

Erie, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$16,565 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mercyhurst University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Intelligence Schools for a Master’s list. Erie, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s intelligence degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

Mercyhurst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Intelligence Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Mercyhurst are $16,565.

Read full report on General Intelligence at Mercyhurst University

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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