by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 New Jersey, there were 403 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,908 and $38,822 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,273 and $26,463 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public administration. That schools that top this list have a program in public administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Kean University landed the #1 spot on the list. Kean is a public institution located in Union, New Jersey. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - Newark. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey list. Located in Newark, New Jersey, this fairly large public school handed out 139 degrees to qualified bachelors’s public admin students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Public Administration at Rutgers University - Newark
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Centenary University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in New Jersey list. Centenary is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hackettstown, New Jersey. It awarded 11 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Public Administration at Centenary University
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