by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 16,897 people earned their degree in public administration, making the major the 49th most popular in the United States.
Across Alabama, there were 396 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 335 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,476 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama” ranking, we looked at 11 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.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama master’s degree public admin students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Alabama. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. This small school is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and it awarded 6 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Troy University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. Troy, Alabama is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 72 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia Southern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. This fairly large school is located in Orange Beach, Alabama, and it awarded 127 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University at Montgomery landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this medium-sized public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s public admin students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jacksonville State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. Jacksonville, Alabama is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
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Auburn University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. Auburn is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 40 masters’s public admin degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, 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 92%.
With a ranking of #7, University of Alabama at Birmingham did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. This large school is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and it awarded 28 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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University of South Alabama did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama ranking, coming in at #8. This fairly large school is located in Mobile, Alabama, and it awarded 15 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
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With a ranking of #9, University of Alabama in Huntsville did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. This medium-sized school is located in Huntsville, Alabama, and it awarded 8 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
The University of Alabama landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama ranking. The University of Alabama is a large public school situated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It awarded 19 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.
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With a ranking of #11, South University, Montgomery did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alabama list. Montgomery, Alabama is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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