2023 Most Popular Colleges for Public Finance
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Ranked Colleges
48
Degrees Awarded
$27,600
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Public Finance Major” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Public Finance is the 1168th most popular major in the country with 48 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Public Finance Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in public finance. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in public finance.
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Most Well Attended Public Finance Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for public finance students.
Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Public Finance
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Public Finance Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Niagara University landed the #1 spot on the list. Niagara is a small school located in Niagara University, New York that handed out 20 ’s public finance degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Public Finance at Niagara
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend York College of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Public Finance Major list. 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 14 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Public Finance at YCP
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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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