2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Rhode Island

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 17,269 people earned their degree in public administration, making the major the 47th most popular in the United States.

Across Rhode Island, there were 64 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public administration programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Master’s in Rhode Island

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Rhode Island

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

URI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at URI are $29,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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