2025 Best Liberal Arts General Studies Associate Degree Schools in Georgia

If you pursue a associate degree in liberal arts general studies, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 18 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Liberal Arts General Studies Associate Degree Schools in Georgia ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 5,895 associate degrees in liberal arts general studies to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Liberal Arts General Studies School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of liberal arts general studies for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to liberal arts general studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other liberal arts general studies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt liberal arts general studies students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized liberal arts general studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for liberal arts general studies students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Liberal Arts General Studies Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Liberal Arts General Studies Associate Degree Schools in Georgia list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Liberal Arts General Studies in Georgia

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in liberal arts general studies.

10 Top Georgia Schools for an Associate in Liberal Arts

1

Oxford College of Emory University
Oxford, GA

615 Annual Graduates

$7,808 Median Starting Salary

$38,430 Median Student Debt

It's difficult to beat Oxford College of Emory University if you wish to pursue an associate degree in liberal arts general studies. Oxford College is a fairly small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Oxford.

Students who graduate with their associate from the liberal arts program report average early career wages of $7,808.

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2

Georgia State University-Perimeter College
Atlanta, GA

1,917 Annual Graduates

$29,070 Median Starting Salary

$7,863 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in liberal arts general studies needs to take a look at Georgia State University-Perimeter College. Georgia State University-Perimeter College is a fairly large public university located in the city of Atlanta.

Associate recipients from the liberal arts general studies degree program at Georgia State University-Perimeter College earn $6,344 more than the average college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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3

University of North Georgia
Dahlonega, GA

562 Annual Graduates

$24,817 Median Starting Salary

University of North Georgia is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in liberal arts general studies. UNG is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Dahlonega.

Those liberal arts general studies students who get their associate degree from University of North Georgia receive $2,091 more than the typical liberal arts graduate.

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4

Georgia Highlands College
Rome, GA

605 Annual Graduates

$28,403 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in liberal arts general studies has to take a look at Georgia Highlands College. GHC is a small public college located in the suburb of Rome.

Associate recipients from the liberal arts general studies program at Georgia Highlands College make $5,677 more than the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a associate in liberal arts general studies from Georgia Highlands College

5

Georgia Military College
Milledgeville, GA

428 Annual Graduates

$19,929 Median Starting Salary

Georgia Military College is a medium-sized public college located in the distant town of Milledgeville.

Students who graduate with their associate from the liberal arts program state that they receive average early career earnings of $19,929.

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6

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Tifton, GA

138 Annual Graduates

$28,064 Median Starting Salary

Located in the town of Tifton, ABAC Tifton is a public college with a small student population.

Liberal Arts General Studies associate degree recipients from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College earn a boost of approximately $5,338 over the average earnings of liberal arts general studies majors.

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7

South Georgia State College
Douglas, GA

182 Annual Graduates

$25,002 Median Starting Salary

Located in the town of Douglas, South Georgia State College is a public college with a small student population.

Those liberal arts general studies students who get their associate degree from South Georgia State College receive $2,276 more than the typical liberal arts grad.

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8

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA

24 Annual Graduates

GaSou is a very large public university located in the distant town of Statesboro.More information about a associate in liberal arts general studies from Georgia Southern University

9

Shorter University
Rome, GA

17 Annual Graduates

Shorter is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Rome.More information about a associate in liberal arts general studies from Shorter University

10

Albany State University
Albany, GA

384 Annual Graduates

$28,576 Median Starting Salary

$5,110 Median Student Debt

Albany State is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Albany.

Associate recipients from the liberal arts general studies program at Albany State University earn $5,850 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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Best Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Mississippi	143	5,107
Florida	121	63,334
North Carolina	120	17,285
Arkansas	105	4,615
Tennessee	102	9,311
Virginia	97	6,800
West Virginia	92	2,520
Kentucky	90	5,565
Louisiana	80	1,766
South Carolina	77	3,767
Alabama	69	5,517

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Liberal Arts General Studies Related Rankings by Major

Liberal Arts General Studies is one of 0 different types of Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities programs to choose from.

Liberal Arts Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Liberal Arts	5,240
General Studies	491
Individualized Studies	164

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.