2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Rhode Island (With Aid)

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 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 Rhode Island, there were 64 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,700 and $37,670 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island master’s degree public admin students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Rhode Island (With Aid)

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$63,997 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified masters’s public admin 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. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082.

Read more about Public Administration at University of Rhode Island

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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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