2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in the New England Region

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Public Administration is the 60th most popular major in the country with 16,905 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $51,352 and had an average of $29,054 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 818 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,015 and $31,084 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree public admin students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the New England Region

1

University of Maine at Fort Kent
Fort Kent, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Fort Kent. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in the New England Region. University of Maine at Fort Kent is a small public school situated in Fort Kent, Maine. It awarded 1 associates’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UMFK Public Administration Report

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University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Augusta. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in the New England Region. Augusta, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s public admin degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration

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.

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