by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Tennessee, there were 107 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,394 and $46,644 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee”.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Strayer University - Tennessee landed the #1 spot on the list. Strayer University - Tennessee is a small private for-profit school situated in Memphis, Tennessee. It awarded 7 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cumberland University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee list. CU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lebanon, Tennessee. It awarded 9 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tennessee State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee. Tennessee State University is a medium-sized school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 13 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lipscomb University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee list. The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga is a fairly large public school situated in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It awarded 12 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
Lincoln Memorial University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee list. Harrogate, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of Memphis came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee ranking. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this large public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified masters’s public admin students in 2020-2021.
South College came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee ranking. South College is a private for-profit institution located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a ranking of #8, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Tennessee list. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a public institution located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
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