2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Louisiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Administration is the 49th most popular major in the country with 16,897 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Louisiana, there were 121 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 113 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in public administration. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public administration program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana master’s degree public admin students.

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Louisiana

1

Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#23 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern University and A & M College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 47 diplomas to qualified masters’s public admin students in 2020-2021.

Full Southern University and A & M College Public Administration Report

2

University of Louisiana at Monroe
Monroe, Louisiana

#8 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisiana at Monroe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana list. ULM is a medium-sized school located in Monroe, Louisiana that handed out 28 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Public Administration at ULM

3

Grambling State University
Grambling, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grambling State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana. Located in Grambling, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s public admin students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Public Administration at GSU

4

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

#17 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Orleans. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana. This medium-sized school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 7 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Public Administration at UNO

5

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Louisiana. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Public Administration Report

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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

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.