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2023 Best Value General Education Schools in Delaware

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$11,713 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,349 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Education School for You

In 2020-2021, general education students earned 134 degrees and certificates from a Delaware school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Teaching Degree Search has developed this Best Value General Education Schools in Delaware ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Delaware to see which 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value General Education Schools in Delaware

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Education Colleges.

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality in General Education

$8,358 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Delaware State University to be the best value school for general education students who want to pursue a degree in Delaware. Del State is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Dover.

Del State undergraduate students pay an average of $8,358 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Del State also took the #4 spot in our Best General Education Schools in Delaware rankings.

Read full report on General Education at Delaware State University

#2

Wilmington University

New Castle, DE
$11,760 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Wilmington University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best general education schools in Delaware. Wilmington University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of New Castle.

Wilmington University undergraduate students pay an average of $11,760 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that education majors at Wilmington University take out is $23,277.

Wilmington University also took the #3 spot in our Best General Education Schools in Delaware rankings.

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$15,020 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Delaware is a great value for general education students. Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UD are $15,020 a year.

UD also made our Best General Education Schools in Delaware list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on General Education at University of Delaware

Best Value General Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value General Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Jersey 702
Pennsylvania 1,014
New York 604
Maryland 1,286
District of Columbia 79

General Education is one of 14 different types of teaching programs to choose from.

Education Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Education 29,810

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 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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