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2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
26 Degrees Awarded
$21,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 17,269 people earned their degree in public administration, making the major the 58th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $48,859 and had an average of $42,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 2,650 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,951 and $36,038 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree public admin students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Marion, Indiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 17 degrees to qualified associates’s public admin students in 2019-2020.

IWU also made our “Best Public Administration Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $21,589 for great lakes region associate degree public admin students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global.

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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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