2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in the Plains States Region

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Other Public Administration is the 279th most popular major in the country with 721 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , other public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $46,889 and had an average of $30,074 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 19 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 other public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other public administration. That schools that top this list have a program in other public administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Administration in the Plains States Region

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Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. WUSTL is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 17 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Other Public Administration at WUSTL

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Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Admin Major in the Plains States Region list. SMU MN is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Winona, Minnesota. It awarded 0 masters’s other public admin degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Other Public Administration Report

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.