2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region
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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 the Plains States region, there were 1,443 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,408 and $49,259 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 143 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 13 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region.
Top 13 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Winona State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Winona, Minnesota, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
Winona State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $17,656 for plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students per year to attend Winona State University.
The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. University of North Dakota is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 13 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UND, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UND is $15,738 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Park University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. This fairly large school is located in Parkville, Missouri, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
Park University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #9 on our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $15,579 for plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students per year to attend Park University.
Out of the 13 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this medium-sized public school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s public admin students in 2019-2020.
UNI also took the #3 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $15,620 for plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students per year to attend UNI.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lindenwood University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Lindenwood University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Charles, Missouri. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Lindenwood University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $17,491 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students per year to attend Lindenwood University.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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With a ranking of #6, Columbia College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Columbia, Missouri, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
Columbia College Missouri also made our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #11. The estimated yearly cost for Columbia College Missouri is $26,730 for plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students.
Washburn University landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region ranking. Topeka, Kansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s public admin degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students list, Washburn University has also earned the #10 rank in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Washburn University is $14,481 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students.
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With a ranking of #8, Walden University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. This large school is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
Walden University also made our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #12.
University of Kansas came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region ranking. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s public admin students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students list, KU has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $18,918 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students per year to attend University of Kansas.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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Upper Iowa University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. UIU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fayette, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Upper Iowa University is $21,624 for plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students.
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University of Missouri - St Louis came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region ranking. This fairly large school is located in Saint Louis, Missouri, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
UMSL also took the #7 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Missouri - St Louis is $9,435 for plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students.
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With a ranking of #12, Buena Vista University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. BVU is a small school located in Storm Lake, Iowa that handed out 1 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree public admin students list, BVU has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $17,544 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students per year to attend BVU.
Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies landed the #13 spot on the 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region ranking. Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Springfield, Missouri. It awarded 1 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.
Drury University - CCPS also took the #13 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $13,233 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students per year to attend Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies.
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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%.
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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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