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2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Connecticut

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$40,137 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$32,974 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts General Studies School for You

Liberal Arts General Studies is the #83 most popular major in Connecticut with 34 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Connecticut to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Connecticut 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 Connecticut

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

Best Connecticut Schools for Affordable Quality in Liberal Arts General Studies

$18,524 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Connecticut to be the best value school for liberal arts general studies students who want to pursue a degree in Connecticut. UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

UCONN undergraduate students pay an average of $18,524 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UCONN is ranked #5 for overall quality for liberal arts in Connecticut.

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#2

Wesleyan University

Middletown, CT
$61,749 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Wesleyan University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Connecticut list. Located in the small city of Middletown, Wesleyan U is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Wesleyan U are $61,749 per year.

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Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 10
Rhode Island 7
New Hampshire 26
Maine 16
Vermont 7

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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