2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in New Hampshire

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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 New Hampshire, there were 754 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,293 and $31,107 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 130 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,663 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in New Hampshire” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in New Hampshire

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in New Hampshire”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in New Hampshire

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. UNH is a fairly large school located in Durham, New Hampshire that handed out 116 masters’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full UNH Public Administration & Social Service Report

2

New England College
Henniker, New Hampshire

#10 overall quality in New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New England College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in New Hampshire list. New England College is located in Henniker, New Hampshire and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s public administration and social service degrees to qualified students.

Full NEC Public Administration & Social Service Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in the New England Region
• Most Focused Master’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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