by our College Data Analytics TeamPublic Administration is a concentration offered under the public administration major at Mississippi State University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in public admin, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Out-of-state part-time graduates at Mississippi State paid an average of $1,331 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $495 per credit hour. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $8,800 | $23,840 |
| Fees | $110 | $110 |
Mississippi State does not offer an online option for its public admin master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Mississippi State Online Learning page.
Women made up around 60.0% of the public admin students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 60.4%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in public admin at Mississippi State in 2019-2020, 30.0% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 41%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 0 |
| Black or African American | 3 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 7 |
| International Students | 0 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.