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Best Value Public Administration Schools in Rhode Island

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2023 Best Value Public Administration Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$26,344 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,857 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Administration School for You

Public Administration is the #30 most popular major in Rhode Island with 42 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Public Administration Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which 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.

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.

2023 Best Value Public Administration Schools in Rhode Island

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Public Administration Colleges.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality in Public Administration

$37,355 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Roger Williams University the best value school in Rhode Island for public administration students. RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Bristol.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at RWU are $37,355 a year.

RWU also made our Best Public Administration Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #4.

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$15,332 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Rhode Island helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best public administration schools in Rhode Island. URI is a large public school located in the large suburb of Kingston.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at URI are $15,332 per year.

URI not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Public Administration Schools in Rhode Island list.

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Best Value Public Administration Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Public Administration Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 509
Connecticut 135
New Hampshire 23
Maine 0
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 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 2 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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