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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 3,466 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 58 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public administration. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)

#1

Hudson Valley Community College

Troy, New York

#1 in overall quality

$8,548 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hudson Valley Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid. Hudson Valley Community College is a medium-sized school located in Troy, New York that handed out 7 associates’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

HVCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Administration Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $8,548 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Public Admin students with aid per year to attend Hudson Valley Community College.

Read more about Public Administration at HVCC

#2

Medgar Evers College

Brooklyn, New York

#2 in overall quality

$5,507 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Medgar Evers College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Brooklyn, New York, this medium-sized public school handed out 27 degrees to qualified associates’s public admin students in 2019-2020.

Medgar also took the #2 spot in our “Best Public Administration Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $5,507 for middle atlantic region associate degree public admin students with aid per year to attend Medgar Evers College.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for 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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