2022 Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Policy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Policy is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,199 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public policy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,077 and had an average of $35,743 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 127 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,900 and $41,705 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public policy 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 policy program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Policy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree public policy students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

St Catherine University

Saint Paul, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$19,078 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Catherine University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. This small school is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s public policy degrees in 2019-2020.

St. Kate’s also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend St Catherine University is $19,078 for plains states region bachelor’s degree public policy students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy (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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