2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Mississippi (With Aid)

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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 Mississippi, there were 83 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,300 and $64,837 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public administration programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

Rust College

Holly Springs, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$11,317 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Rust College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Rust College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. It costs about $11,317 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Public Admin students with aid per year to attend Rust College.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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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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