2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Arkansas, there were 185 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,950 and $47,193 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” 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.

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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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

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

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

#1

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$19,375 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas list. Harding University is a small school located in Searcy, Arkansas that handed out 6 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Harding, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Harding is $19,375 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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#2

Henderson State University

Arkadelphia, Arkansas

#2 in overall quality

$10,270 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Henderson State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas list. Henderson State University is a small public school situated in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. It awarded 3 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

Henderson State University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. It costs about $10,270 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students per year to attend Henderson State University.

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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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