2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in New Jersey (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 365,980 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, liberal arts is the 2nd most popular major in the United States.

Across New Jersey, there were 8,943 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

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

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in New Jersey (With Aid)

#1

Rutgers University - Camden

Camden, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$31,338 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - Camden. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Studies Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid list. Camden, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal studies degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

Rutgers Camden also took the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rutgers University - Camden are $31,338, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Rutgers Camden Liberal Arts Report

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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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