2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Public Finance is the 1168th most popular major in the country with 41 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 40 public finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 public finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree public finance students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Finance in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend York College of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in York, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 11 masters’s public finance degrees 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
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Niagara University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Finance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Niagara is located in Niagara University, New York and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s public finance degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Public Finance at Niagara
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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
- *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.
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