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2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
26 Degrees Awarded
$22,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Administration is the 58th most popular major in the country with 17,269 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public administration programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public administration program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global landed the #1 spot on the list. Marion, Indiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s public admin degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

IWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Administration Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $22,207 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Public Admin students with aid 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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