2023 Best Value Public Policy Schools in New Jersey
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Ranked Colleges
287
Degrees Awarded
$16,400
Avg Net Price*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Policy Schools in New Jersey” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Public Policy is the 113th most popular major in the country with 6,430 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public policy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,451 and had an average of $21,866 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Jersey, there were 287 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,059 and $17,563 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Public Policy Schools in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public policy. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public policy programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public policy 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 Policy Schools in New Jersey
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Policy Schools in New Jersey.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Public Policy in New Jersey
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Public Policy Schools in New Jersey list. This large school is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and it awarded 50 ’s public policy degrees in 2020-2021.
Rutgers New Brunswick also took the #2 spot in our “Best Public Policy Schools in New Jersey” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Rutgers New Brunswick is $23,035 for New Jersey Public Policy students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read full report on Public Policy at Rutgers New Brunswick
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Princeton University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Public Policy Schools in New Jersey. This medium-sized school is located in Princeton, New Jersey, and it awarded 221 ’s public policy degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Princeton, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Policy Schools in New Jersey” ranking. It costs about $9,836 for New Jersey Public Policy students per year to attend Princeton University.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Public Policy at Princeton
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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
- *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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