2024 Best Public Administration Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3
Colleges in the Southwest Region
30
Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in
public administration, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #62 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for public administration students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 30 doctor's degrees in public administration during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Public Administration School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of public administration for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on public administration students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other public administration students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt public administration students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public administration related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for public administration students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Public Administration Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Administration Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.