2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 98,583 people earned their degree in public administration and social service, making the major the 14th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,520 and had an average of $27,642 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 1,782 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,321 and $30,326 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 33 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,870 and $17,588 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in public administration and social service. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public administration and social service program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland associate degree public administration & social service students.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Maryland

1

Cecil College
North East, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cecil College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Maryland. Cecil College is a small school located in North East, Maryland that handed out 9 associates’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Frederick Community College
Frederick, Maryland

#19 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Frederick Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Maryland. Frederick Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Frederick, Maryland. It awarded 16 associates’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Prince George's Community College
Largo, Maryland

#18 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Prince George’s Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Maryland list. PGCC is a fairly large public school situated in Largo, Maryland. It awarded 8 associates’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

Baltimore City Community College
Baltimore, Maryland

#24 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baltimore City Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Maryland list. Baltimore City Community College is a small school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 0 associates’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service

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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