2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Administration in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Education Admin Major in Pennsylvania for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 46,469 people earned their degree in educational administration, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, educational administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $61,457 and had an average of $32,661 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 1,858 educational administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,494 and $20,844 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 educational administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Education Admin Major in Pennsylvania for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational administration. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular educational administration programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Education Admin Major in Pennsylvania for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Education Admin Major in Pennsylvania for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Administration in Pennsylvania

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Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#10 overall quality in Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Education Admin Major in Pennsylvania for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Joseph’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s education admin degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full Saint Joseph’s University Educational Administration Report

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La Salle University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend La Salle University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Education Admin Major in Pennsylvania for a Bachelor’s. La Salle University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Educational Administration at La Salle University

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• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Administration

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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