2025 Best General Education Schools in Connecticut
3Colleges in Connecticut
344Education Degrees Awarded
$55,624Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in general education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #41 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for general education students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 344 degrees in general education to qualified students.
The education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Education rankings. For our Best Overall General Education School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 General Education Schools in Connecticut list to help you make the college decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the education degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in general education needs to check out Southern Connecticut State University. Located in the city of New Haven, SCSU is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #657 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means SCSU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 60 general education students who graduated with this degree at SCSU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the education program state that they receive average early career wages of $43,300.
Any student pursuing a degree in general education needs to check out Central Connecticut State University. CCSU is a moderately-sized public university located in the suburb of New Britain. This university ranks 14th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were roughly 10 general education students who graduated with this degree at CCSU in the most recent year we have data available.
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It is difficult to beat Western Connecticut State University if you wish to pursue a degree in general education. WestConn is a small public university located in the small city of Danbury. This university ranks 17th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 14 general education students who graduated with this degree at WestConn in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Education rankings. For our Best Overall General Education School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
