2023 Best Value General Education Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best General Education Master's Degree School for You
General Education is one of the most popular subjects to study in North Carolina. With 255 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 6th out of all the majors we track in the state.
With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value General Education Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to see which master'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.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value General Education Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for education majors pursuing a master's degree.
Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in General Education
Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Wilmington the best value school in North Carolina for general education students working on their master’s degree. Located in the medium-sized city of Wilmington, UNCW is a public school with a fairly large student population.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNCW are $7,514 per year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Carolina University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Education Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list. WCU is a large public school located in the distant town of Cullowhee.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at WCU are $7,480 a year.
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Out of the 3 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the # 3 spot on the list. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public school located in the city of Chapel Hill.
UNC Chapel Hill graduate students pay an average of $12,566 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
UNC Chapel Hill also took the #2 spot in our Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina rankings.
Full General Education at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Report
Best Value General Education Colleges in the Southeast Region
Explore all the Best Value General Education Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Kentucky | 95 |
Tennessee | 605 |
Georgia | 117 |
Florida | 622 |
Virginia | 918 |
West Virginia | 301 |
South Carolina | 352 |
Arkansas | 133 |
Louisiana | 116 |
Mississippi | 407 |
Alabama | 115 |
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Majors Related to Education
One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, general education has other similar majors worth exploring.
Education Concentrations
Major | Annual Graduates |
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General Education | 29,810 |
Most Popular Majors Related to Education
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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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 3 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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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