If you plan on majoring in public administration, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #60 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Hawaii to determine which ones were the best for public administration students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 182 degrees in public administration during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Your choice of public administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Administration Schools in Hawaii ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the public admin degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in public administration has to look into University of Hawaii at Manoa. UH Manoa is a large public university located in the city of Honolulu. A Best Colleges rank of #373 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UH Manoa is a great university overall.
There were approximately 26 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UH Manoa in the most recent year we have data available.
Hawaii Pacific University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in public administration. Located in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii Pacific University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 6th out of 12 colleges for overall quality in the state of Hawaii.
There were approximately 25 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Hawaii Pacific University in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Hawaii - West Oahu is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in public administration. UH West Oahu is a small public university located in the large suburb of Kapolei. This university ranks 7th out of 12 schools for overall quality in the state of Hawaii.
There were about 131 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UH West Oahu in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the public admin program state that they receive average early career wages of $36,241.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
Your choice of public administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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