2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 34 people earned their degree in public finance, making the major the 1118th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 public finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public finance programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public finance program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The public finance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Bachelor’s”.

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Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance

#1

Niagara University

Niagara University, New York

#1 in overall quality

$20,019 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Niagara University landed the #1 spot on the list. Niagara is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Niagara University, New York. It awarded 18 bachelors’s public finance degrees in 2019-2020.

Niagara also made our “Best Public Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Niagara University is $20,019 for Bachelor’s Degree Public Finance students.

Read more about Public Finance at Niagara

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

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