by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Florida” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Florida, there were 13 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,198 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Florida” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public policy. That schools that top this list have a program in public policy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Florida” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for florida master’s degree public policy students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jacksonville University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Florida list. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public policy degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Florida list. This large school is located in Orlando, Florida, and it awarded 0 masters’s public policy degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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