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2023 Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$37,580 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,988 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Graduate Certificate School for You

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities is the #30 most popular major in the country with 2,680 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. 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.

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 & Humanities Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 / Sciences & Humanities Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Liberal Arts & Humanities

Our 2023 rankings named Indiana University - Southeast the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for liberal arts / sciences and humanities students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of New Albany, Indiana University - Southeast is a public college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Indiana University - Southeast are $18,592 per year.

Read full report on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Indiana University - Southeast

#2

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Northwestern University is a great value for liberal arts / sciences and humanities students working on their graduate certificate. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 a year.

Northwestern not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Liberal Arts & Humanities Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Northwestern University Report

Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Colleges by State

Explore the best liberal arts / sciences and humanities schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 290
Indiana 19
Ohio 62
Wisconsin 4
Michigan 13

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Liberal Arts General Studies 2,680

Related Major Annual Graduates
Visual & Performing Arts 18,379
Theology & Religious Vocations 17,287
English Language & Literature 9,566
Foreign Languages & Linguistics 4,163
Philosophy & Religious Studies 3,136

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

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