2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 485 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,857 and $32,762 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in public administration. 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree public admin students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

#1

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Rexburg, Idaho

#2 in overall quality

$7,167 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Rexburg, Idaho, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s public admin students in 2019-2020.

BYU - I not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. It costs about $7,167 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students with aid per year to attend BYU - I.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Administration at BYU - I

#2

Colorado State University - Global Campus

Greenwood Village, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$63,001 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Global Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Colorado State University - Global Campus is a fairly large school located in Greenwood Village, Colorado that handed out 4 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado State University - Global Campus also made our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #1.

The low student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Administration at Colorado State University - Global Campus

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration (With Aid)

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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