by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Rhode Island” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Rhode Island, there were 56 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,857 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,833 and $24,930 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Rhode Island” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public administration. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public administration.
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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 Rhode Island” list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Rhode Island”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Rhode Island list. This medium-sized school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Roger Williams University landed the #2 spot on the list. Roger Williams University is a small school located in Bristol, Rhode Island that handed out 4 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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