2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 44 public finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 public finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public finance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public finance.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree public finance students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

York College of Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend York College of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. YCP is a small private not-for-profit school situated in York, Pennsylvania. It awarded 14 masters’s public finance degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full YCP Public Finance Report

2

Niagara University
Niagara University, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Niagara University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Niagara University, New York, and it awarded 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 full report on Public Finance at Niagara

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance

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.