2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Oregon

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Oregon” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 16,905 people earned their degree in public administration, making the major the 60th most popular in the United States. 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 Oregon, there were 117 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,947 and $19,432 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 55 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,095 and $25,983 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Oregon” 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Oregon

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Oregon

1

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

#1 overall quality in Oregon

$35,784 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,432 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Oregon is a public institution located in Eugene, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 55 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Administration at University of Oregon

2

Eastern Oregon University
La Grande, Oregon

#18 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Oregon University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Oregon list. EOU is a small public school situated in La Grande, Oregon. It awarded 0 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Public Administration at EOU

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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.

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