Public Affairs Best Colleges Financial Aid Comparison
For the academic year 2023-2024, at the best colleges in Public Affairs program, total 362,778 undergraduate students have awarded grant aid from federal, state, local, and/or institutes. The average amount of the awarded grant aid is $29,417 where the 2025 average tuition & fees is $52,772. For full-time first time undergraduate students (freshmen), 60%% of students (80,226 students) have awarded federal, state, local and/or institutional grant aid.
- For all undergraduate students, University of Georgia has the highest percent of students awarded grant aid of 86% and Georgetown University has the lowest graduation rate of 35%.
- For all undergraduate students, Princeton University has the highest amount of grant aid of $62,593 and Georgia State University has the lowest amount of grant aid of $8,636.
- For first-time full-time students, Georgia State University has the highest percent of students awarded grant aid of 93% and Georgetown University has the lowest graduation rate of 36%.
- For first-time full-time students, Columbia University in the City of New York has the highest amount of grant aid of $65,173 and Indiana University-Bloomington has the lowest amount of grant aid of $9,857.
Public Affairs Best Colleges Financial Aid Comparison
The following table lists the best colleges in Public Affairs programs. The "-" value in other columns means that the corresponding data has not been reported or the school does not have programs for the values.
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| Rank | College name | Tuition & Fees | All Undergraduate | Full-time First-Time Undergraduate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Students Awarded Grants | Percent of Students Awarded Grants | Average Amount Grant Aid Awarded | Number of Students Awarded Grants | Percent of Students Awarded Grants | Average Amount Grant Aid Awarded | |||
| 260 | Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN Public, 4 years four-years | $41,891 ($12,144) | 23,695 | 66% | $11,389 | 7,145 | 74% | $9,857 |
| 86 | Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Private, 4 years four-years | $65,528 ($46,755) | 12,355 | 80% | $30,721 | 3,344 | 82% | $29,110 |
| 2 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA Private, 4 years four-years | $61,676 ($48,949) | 4,562 | 49% | $55,827 | 932 | 57% | $64,942 |
| 41 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $47,265 ($15,377) | 18,629 | 57% | $22,996 | 3,369 | 50% | $25,951 |
| 44 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Public, 4 years four-years | $63,081 ($18,848) | 16,891 | 52% | $24,478 | 3,850 | 55% | $22,005 |
| 28 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Private, 4 years four-years | $71,647 ($54,259) | 14,187 | 69% | $44,920 | 2,319 | 68% | $43,208 |
| 137 | University of Georgia Athens, GA Public, 4 years four-years | $31,688 ($11,450) | 26,305 | 86% | $10,849 | 5,187 | 83% | $11,657 |
| 9 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL Private, 4 years four-years | $69,324 ($54,825) | 3,836 | 51% | $48,772 | 789 | 46% | $58,877 |
| 102 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public, 4 years four-years | $43,209 ($12,973) | 14,148 | 39% | $15,799 | 3,125 | 43% | $14,390 |
| 85 | American University Washington, DC Private, 4 years four-years | $58,771 ($46,615) | 3,774 | 48% | $32,205 | 1,089 | 62% | $31,402 |
| 677 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public, 4 years four-years | $33,139 ($12,223) | 50,588 | 77% | $12,396 | 13,371 | 89% | $11,992 |
| 16 | Georgetown University Washington, DC Private, 4 years four-years | $68,089 ($52,300) | 2,804 | 35% | $46,162 | 564 | 36% | $46,729 |
| 63 | George Washington University Washington, DC Private, 4 years four-years | $67,710 ($51,346) | 7,435 | 65% | $35,798 | 2,264 | 77% | $35,367 |
| 25 | New York University New York, NY Private, 4 years four-years | $62,796 ($50,464) | 13,508 | 46% | $40,263 | 2,509 | 41% | $48,269 |
| 5 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ Private, 4 years four-years | $62,688 ($47,140) | 3,365 | 60% | $62,593 | 904 | 60% | $60,629 |
| 42 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $46,121 ($14,233) | 17,820 | 55% | $21,007 | 3,144 | 49% | $22,441 |
| 176 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Public, 4 years four-years | $38,362 ($17,214) | 19,909 | 51% | $11,363 | 4,183 | 62% | $11,807 |
| 57 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Public, 4 years four-years | $44,908 ($11,688) | 20,935 | 51% | $12,383 | 4,198 | 47% | $12,060 |
| 20 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Private, 4 years four-years | $65,636 ($53,910) | 3,379 | 48% | $43,489 | 837 | 49% | $47,550 |
| 175 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public, 4 years four-years | $40,022 ($13,244) | 28,677 | 62% | $11,931 | 5,109 | 64% | $11,791 |
| 70 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Public, 4 years four-years | $41,203 ($8,994) | 10,315 | 52% | $15,205 | 1,685 | 38% | $15,365 |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY Private, 4 years four-years | $70,517 ($51,640) | 4,983 | 55% | $52,519 | 777 | 52% | $65,173 |
| 11 | Duke University Durham, NC Private, 4 years four-years | $68,758 ($53,500) | 3,447 | 52% | $53,004 | 724 | 41% | $59,327 |
| 841 | Georgia State University Atlanta, GA Public, 4 years four-years | $24,840 ($8,664) | 23,734 | 82% | $8,636 | 4,911 | 93% | $10,928 |
| 518 | University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Public, 4 years four-years | $30,432 ($12,102) | 13,497 | 70% | $10,731 | 3,897 | 89% | $10,644 |
| Average | $52,772 | 362,778 | 58% | $29,417 | 80,226 | 60% | $31,259 | |