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2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
26 Degrees Awarded
$22,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region 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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Public Administration is the 47th most popular major in the country with 17,269 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 2,650 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public administration program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree public admin students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. IWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Marion, Indiana. It awarded 17 associates’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at IWU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $22,207 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Public Admin students with aid per year to attend Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global.

Read more about Public Administration at Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global

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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

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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