2023 Most Focused Colleges for Public Finance

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools Highly Focused on Public Finance Major” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Public Finance is the 1168th most popular major in the country with 41 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Public Finance Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public finance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public finance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Public Finance Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Public Finance Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Public Finance

1

Niagara University
Niagara University, New York

$40,305 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,652 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Niagara University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Public Finance Major list. Niagara University is located in Niagara University, New York and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 24 ’s public finance degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Finance at Niagara

2

York College of Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania

$44,412 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,968 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend York College of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Public Finance Major. York, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s public finance degrees to 11 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.

Read more about Public Finance at York College of Pennsylvania

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.