2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major” ranking.

Public Finance is the 1168th most popular major in the country with 48 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 public finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public finance. That schools that top this list have a program in public finance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance

1

York College of Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major that were part of this year’s ranking, York College of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. York, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public finance degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Finance at YCP

2

Niagara University
Niagara University, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Niagara University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major list. Niagara University is a small school located in Niagara University, New York that handed out 6 masters’s public finance degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.