2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Administration is the 58th most popular major in the country with 17,269 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $48,859 and had an average of $42,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 64 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,700 and $37,670 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public administration program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$63,997 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

URI also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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