2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Administration in Pennsylvania
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Public Administration is the 279th most popular major in the country with 588 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $46,889 and had an average of $22,079 in loans still to pay off.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 22 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other public administration. That schools that top this list have a program in other public administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in Pennsylvania
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in Pennsylvania”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Administration in Pennsylvania
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Geneva College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in Pennsylvania. Geneva is a small school located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania that handed out 2 bachelors’s other public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Other Public Administration at Geneva
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Swarthmore College landed the #2 spot on the list. Swarthmore College is a small school located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania that handed out 0 bachelors’s other public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Read more about Other Public Administration at Swarthmore
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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
- *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.