2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado” ranking.

Public Administration is the 47th most popular major in the country with 17,269 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Colorado, there were 173 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,261 and $25,672 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public administration program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Colorado

#1

Colorado State University - Global Campus

Greenwood Village, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Global Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Colorado State University - Global Campus is a public institution located in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado State University - Global Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Administration at Colorado State University - Global Campus

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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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