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2023 Best Value General Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

9 Colleges
$28,680 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$72,973 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 29,810 general education students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #5 most popular in the country.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. 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, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value General Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 9 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for education 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 General Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for education majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in General Education

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Findlay the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for general education students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the town of Findlay, Findlay is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Findlay are $18,456 a year.

Full General Education at The University of Findlay Report

#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Purdue University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general education schools in the Great Lakes Region . Purdue is a fairly large public school located in the small city of West Lafayette.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Purdue are $28,794 per year.

Purdue also took the #3 spot in our Best General Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value General Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

UIUC graduate students pay an average of $30,862 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UIUC also did well on our Best General Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full General Education at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

Out of the 9 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Flint landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Flint, UM Flint is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UM Flint are $18,747 a year.

Full General Education at University of Michigan - Flint Report

Out of the 9 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Ypsilanti, Eastern Michigan is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Eastern Michigan are $28,818 a year.

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University of Michigan - Dearborn landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree general education programs. UM Dearborn is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Dearborn.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UM Dearborn are $25,552 per year.

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Ohio State University - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for general education students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. Ohio State is a very large public school located in the large city of Columbus.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Ohio State are $38,377 a year.

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#7

Cleveland State University

Cleveland, OH

Cleveland State University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree general education programs. Located in the city of Cleveland, Cleveland State University is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Cleveland State University graduate students pay an average of $18,051 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. U-M is a very large public school located in the city of Ann Arbor.

U-M graduate students pay an average of $50,464 in tuition and fees each year.

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Best General Education Colleges by State

Explore the best general education schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 706
Illinois 453
Indiana 502
Michigan 700
Wisconsin 515

One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, general education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Education Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
General Education 29,810

Majors Similar to Education

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 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 KOKUYO.

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