2022 Best Value English Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value English Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 41,945 people earned their degree in general English literature, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, general English literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $27,525 and had an average of $23,628 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 247 general English literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,800 and $26,909 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general English literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value English Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general English literature. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general English literature programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general English literature program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value English Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia master’s degree english students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General English Literature (Income $48-$75k) in West Virginia

#1

Marshall University

Huntington, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,162 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$31,133 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value English Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Huntington, West Virginia, this fairly large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’s English students in 2019-2020.

Marshall University also took the #1 spot in our “Best General English Literature Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marshall University are $21,162, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Marshall University General English Literature Report

#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value English Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k. Morgantown, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s English degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

WVU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best General English Literature Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at West Virginia University are $26,154, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General English Literature at WVU

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General English Literature (Income $48-$75k)

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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