2023 Most Well Attended Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region 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 has developed its “Most Well Attended Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 “Most Well Attended Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public finance. To top this list, a school must have a successful public finance program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Well Attended Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s

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

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

1

York College of Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend York College of Pennsylvania. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s list. Located in York, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’s public finance 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%.

Full York College of Pennsylvania Public Finance Report

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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 Most Well Attended Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s list. Niagara is a private not-for-profit institution located in Niagara University, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 masters’s 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

• Most Popular 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.