2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in Maryland” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Maryland, there were 292 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,340 and $104,765 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public administration programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public administration program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in Maryland” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in Maryland.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Maryland

#1

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$21,614 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Baltimore. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in Maryland list. UB is a small school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 5 doctorate’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UB, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UB are $21,614, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Public Administration at University of Baltimore

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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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