2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 559,661 liberal arts / sciences and humanities students received their degree, making the major the 3rd most popular in the country. 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 the New England region, there were 11,153 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,163 and $16,578 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 96 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 3 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.

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 / sciences and humanities program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities (Income $75-$110k) in the New England Region

#1

Wesleyan University

Middletown, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$59,106 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wesleyan University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Wesleyan University is a small school located in Middletown, Connecticut that handed out 20 masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

Wesleyan U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wesleyan U are $59,106, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Wesleyan University Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Report

#2

Albertus Magnus College

New Haven, Connecticut

$21,304 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Albertus Magnus College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. This small school is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 6 masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

Albertus Magnus also took the #0 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Albertus Magnus College are $21,304, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Albertus Magnus College

#3

Goddard College

Plainfield, Vermont

#2 in overall quality

$20,028 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Goddard College landed the #3 spot on the list. Plainfield, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Goddard College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Goddard College are $20,028, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Goddard College

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities (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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jacques Sablet (Switzerland, Morges, 1749-1803).

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