If you're seeking a degree in public finance, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #1168 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
There was only one school in the United States to review for the 2025 Best Public Finance Schools ranking.
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 Best Public Finance Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Public Finance in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of public finance degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Invest in the analytical and quantitative skills you need to succeed in a career in finance with this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Increase your potential in nearly any industrial, financial, nonprofit or government organization with this online business administration bachelor's degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Managing and quantifying money is at the heart of the online bachelor's degree in finance at SNHU. You'll learn the fundamentals of investments, address key managerial issues, examine ethics from every angle and build the skillset to be a player in the multidimensional business marketplace.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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