2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Oregon

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Public Administration & Social Service is the 14th most popular major in the country with 98,583 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Oregon, there were 929 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,564 and $25,382 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,802 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Oregon” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in public administration and social service. That schools that top this list have a program in public administration and social service in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Oregon”.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Oregon

1

Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

#6 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Portland State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Oregon. This large school is located in Portland, Oregon, and it awarded 7 doctorate’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%.

Read full report on Public Administration & Social Service at Portland State University

2

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

#2 overall quality in Oregon

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Corvallis, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s public administration and social service degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Full Oregon State University Public Administration & Social Service Report

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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

#1 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oregon. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Oregon. University of Oregon is a public institution located in Eugene, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 171 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UO Public Administration & Social Service Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s 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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