2022 Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Virginia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Other Public Administration is the 253rd most popular major in the country with 821 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, other public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $50,583 and had an average of $32,856 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 4 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,400 and $20,184 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other public administration programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other public administration program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Virginia.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Administration in Virginia

#1

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$37,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$82,440 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Virginia list. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other public admin degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

GMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Other Public Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at GMU are $37,410, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Other Public Administration at George Mason University

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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.

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