2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies (Income $75-$110k) in District of Columbia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Liberal Arts General Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 1st of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 559,661 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 120 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,600 and $35,075 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality liberal arts general studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the liberal arts general studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies (Income $75-$110k) in District of Columbia

#1

Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$23,835 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Georgetown, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. It costs about $23,835 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree Liberal Arts students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Georgetown.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies (Income $75-$110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies (Income $75-$110k)

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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