2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Arizona

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Arizona” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Administration & Social Service is the 14th most popular major in the country with 97,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,142 and had an average of $32,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arizona, there were 4,249 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,570 and $32,124 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 50 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,749 and $17,785 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public administration and social service 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 and social service program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Arizona

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Arizona.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Arizona

#1

University of Phoenix - Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$12,944 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. UOPX - Arizona is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 39 associates’s public administration and social service degrees in 2019-2020.

UOPX - Arizona not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Administration & Social Service Associate Degree Schools in Arizona” list. It costs about $12,944 for Arizona Associate Degree Public Administration & Social Service students per year to attend UOPX - Arizona.

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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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