2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Missouri
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Missouri” 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 2021-2022, 538,925 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In , liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $28,316 and had an average of $15,943 in loans still to pay off.
Across Missouri, there were 9,249 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,467 and $15,516 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,810 and $38,145 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Missouri” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts general studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their liberal arts general studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Missouri
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Missouri”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Missouri
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Kansas City landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Missouri - Kansas City is a fairly large school located in Kansas City, Missouri that handed out 1 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Missouri - Kansas City Liberal Arts General Studies Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #2 spot on the list. WUSTL is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 3 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Washington University in St Louis Liberal Arts General Studies 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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
