2022 Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Public Administration is the 253rd most popular major in the country with 821 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, other public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $50,583 and had an average of $32,856 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 42 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,900 and $16,722 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other public administration programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other public administration program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree other public admin students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Administration in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

National Louis University

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$14,957 Average Net Price

$35,416 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, National Louis University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s other public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

NLU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $14,957 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Other Public Admin students with aid per year to attend National Louis University.

Read full report on Other Public Administration at National Louis University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Administration in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Administration (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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