2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Liberal Arts General Studies School for You

With 98 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, liberal arts general studies is the #58 most popular major in Maryland.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

The Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Maryland ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Maryland to see which ones offered the best value 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. 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 Schools in Maryland

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

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality in Liberal Arts General Studies

#1

St John's College

Annapolis, MD

26 Degrees

$36,170 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named St John’s College the best value school in Maryland for liberal arts general studies students. St. John's Annapolis is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Annapolis.

St. John’s Annapolis undergraduate students pay an average of $36,170 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

43 Degrees

#1 in Quality in Maryland

$58,720 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Johns Hopkins University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best liberal arts general studies schools in Maryland. Located in the city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Johns Hopkins are $58,720 a year.

Johns Hopkins also took the #1 spot in our Best Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Maryland rankings.

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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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