by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Kansas” 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 Kansas, there were 147 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,111 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 70 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Kansas” ranking, we looked at 3 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Kansas”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wichita State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Kansas. Wichita State University is a fairly large public school situated in Wichita, Kansas. It awarded 27 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Public Administration at Wichita State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #2 spot on the list. Lawrence, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public admin degrees to 35 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Public Administration at University of Kansas
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s public admin 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Public Administration at Kansas State University
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