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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$27,874 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,120 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Administration Graduate Certificate School for You

Public Administration is the #23 most popular major in the country with 13,571 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Public Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for public admin students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

Check out the public admin graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Public Administration

#1

Norwich University

Northfield, VT

Our 2023 rankings named Norwich University the best value school in the New England Region for public administration students working on their graduate certificate. Norwich is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Northfield.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Norwich are $21,914 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Norwich is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Public Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Southern New Hampshire University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value public administration schools in the New England Region . SNHU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize suburb of Manchester.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SNHU are $19,470 a year.

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Out of the 3 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 per year.

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Best Public Administration Colleges by State

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State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 509
Connecticut 135
Rhode Island 42
New Hampshire 23
Maine 0
Vermont 40

Public Administration is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Social Work 33,631
Public Policy 3,737
Human Services 1,277
Community Organization & Advocacy 741
Other Public Administration 295

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to The Official CTBTO Photostream.

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