2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

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 a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

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

#1

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 that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Global Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Greenwood Village, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s public admin degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Colorado State University - Global Campus not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Administration at Colorado State University - Global Campus

#2

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Rexburg, Idaho

#2 in overall quality

$7,167 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Idaho. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Rexburg, Idaho is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s public admin degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

BYU - I also took the #2 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend BYU - I is $7,167 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree public admin students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full BYU - I Public Administration Report

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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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