2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 559,661 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 West Virginia, there were 3,539 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia master’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities (Income $0-$30k) in West Virginia

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$7,050 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k list. American Public University System is a large school located in Charles Town, West Virginia that handed out 37 masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

American Military University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at American Military University are $7,050, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Marshall University

Huntington, West Virginia

$21,162 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marshall University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k. Huntington, West Virginia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Marshall University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marshall University are $21,162, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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.

Credits

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