2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in District of Columbia (With Aid)
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 District of Columbia, there were 276 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,875 and $67,337 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,324 and $136,457 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public administration programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid
The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia doctor’s degree public admin students with aid.
Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in District of Columbia (With Aid)
Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Admin Schools for a Doctorate in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, American University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s public admin degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.
The American University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at American University are $35,524, 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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