by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Public Admin Major in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Public Administration is the 49th most popular major in the country with 16,897 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across New Jersey, there were 403 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,273 and $26,463 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public administration. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public administration.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kean University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey list. Located in Union, New Jersey, this fairly large public school handed out 33 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s public admin students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - Newark. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey list. Rutgers University - Newark is a fairly large school located in Newark, New Jersey that handed out 139 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Centenary University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey. Centenary University is a small school located in Hackettstown, New Jersey that handed out 11 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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