2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Mississippi

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Mississippi, there were 83 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public administration programs, but they also 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

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

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

#1

Rust College

Holly Springs, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$11,317 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rust College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi list. Rust College is located in Holly Springs, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s public admin degrees to qualified students.

Rust College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. The yearly cost to attend Rust College is $11,317 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Public Administration at Rust College

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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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