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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, liberal arts general studies was ranked #74 in the country. In fact 2,680 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Plains States Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for liberal arts students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

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

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

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

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS

2 Graduate Certificates

#25 in Quality in the Plains States Region

$25,007 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Kansas the best value school in the Plains States Region for liberal arts general studies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Lawrence, KU is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at KU are $25,007 a year.

Full Liberal Arts General Studies at University of Kansas Report

#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

3 Graduate Certificates

#14 in Quality in the Plains States Region

$31,012 Average Tuition & Fees

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

Iowa graduate students pay an average of $31,012 in tuition and fees each year.

Iowa also claimed a spot on our Best Liberal Arts General Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Full Liberal Arts General Studies at University of Iowa Report

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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