2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Literature (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Literature Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

Literature is the 250th most popular major in the country with 756 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,970 and had an average of $29,434 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 62 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent 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 literature program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Literature Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree literature students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Literature (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$37,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Literature Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #1 spot on the list. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s literature degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

GMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Literature Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at George Mason University are $37,410, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Literature at George Mason 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.

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