2022 Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Finance is the 1118th most popular major in the country with 34 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 public finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public finance program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Public Finance Schools for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Master’s

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

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

#1

Niagara University

Niagara University, New York

#1 in overall quality

$14,893 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Finance Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Niagara University landed the #1 spot on the list. Niagara University, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public finance degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Niagara, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Finance Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Niagara are $14,893.

Read full report on 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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