2023 Best Value Public Administration Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Public Administration Bachelor's Degree School for You

With 254 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, public administration is the #66 most popular major in Maryland.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Public Administration Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Public Administration Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best Public Administration Bachelor's Degree School

#1

University of Maryland Global Campus

Adelphi, MD

67 Bachelor's Degrees

#3 in Quality in Maryland

$7,704 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Maryland Global Campus the best value school in Maryland for public administration students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the suburb of Adelphi, UMGC is a public college with a very large student population.

UMGC undergraduate students pay an average of $7,704 in in-state tuition and fees each year. After completing their Bachelor's Degree, public admin graduates from UMGC carry an average student debtload of $26,158.

UMGC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland list.

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

• 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 the rest 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).
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