New Jersey contains 58 schools that offer liberal arts and humanities programs. Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the highest-ranking liberal arts and humanities school in NJ, has a total student population of 37,366 and is the 55th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 58 liberal arts and humanities schools in New Jersey, only 11 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Lincoln Technical Institute comes out as the most expensive ($40,716/yr), with Camden County College as the lowest recorded at only $3,258/yr.
Liberal Arts and Humanities students from New Jersey schools who go on to become liberal arts and humanities graduate professionals, designers, artists, reporters, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 56,880 people working as education teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $62,160. Also, Mathematicians make on average $93,920 per year and there are about 2,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the New Jersey alone, there are 160 employed mathematicians earning an average yearly salary of $93,490. Education teachers in this state earn $61,990/yr and there are 1,870 employed.
Also, within the liberal arts and humanities schools in New Jersey, the average student population is 3,123 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from liberal arts and humanities, there are 3172 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,929 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $8,300, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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