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Best Value Public Administration Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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2023 Best Value Public Administration Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$37,355 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$24,250 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Public Administration Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Public Administration is the #59 most popular major in the country with 16,905 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Public Administration Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

Check out the public admin undergraduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Public Administration Undergraduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named Roger Williams University the best value school in the New England Region for public administration students working on their undergraduate certificate. RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Bristol.

RWU undergraduate students pay an average of $37,355 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, RWU also did well on our Best Public Administration Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Public Administration at Roger Williams University

Best Public Administration Colleges by State

Explore the best public administration colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 510
Connecticut 135
New Hampshire 61
Maine 16
Rhode Island 55
Vermont 40

One of 5 majors within the area of study, public administration has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Social Work 58,326
Human Services 13,238
Public Policy 6,430
Community Organization & Advocacy 3,096
Other Public Administration 588

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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