2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire

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 a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 New Hampshire, there were 56 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,910 and $24,324 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in public administration. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public administration program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The public admin school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire”.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in New Hampshire

#1

Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$41,095 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern New Hampshire University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire list. This large school is located in Manchester, New Hampshire, and it awarded 42 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

SNHU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Hampshire” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SNHU is $41,095 for new hampshire bachelor’s degree public admin students.

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#2

Plymouth State University

Plymouth, New Hampshire

#2 in overall quality

$19,316 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Plymouth State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Hampshire. Plymouth, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s public admin degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Plymouth State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Hampshire” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Plymouth State is $19,316 for New Hampshire Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students.

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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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