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2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$25,792 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,988 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

Liberal Arts General Studies is the #74 most popular major in the country with 2,680 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for liberal arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for liberal arts majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Liberal Arts General Studies

Our analysis found University of Oklahoma Norman Campus to be the best value school for liberal arts general studies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . University of Oklahoma is a very large public school located in the suburb of Norman.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Oklahoma are $23,876 a year.

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#2

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Texas Tech also did well on our Best Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Liberal Arts General Studies at Texas Tech University Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Southern Methodist University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value liberal arts general studies schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the large suburb of Dallas, SMU is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SMU are $35,802 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, SMU also is in the top 15% of our Best Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

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Best Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best liberal arts general studies colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 219
Arizona 51
Oklahoma 195
New Mexico 21

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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