2024 Best Public Administration Master's Degree Schools in Utah
3Colleges in Utah
178Master's Degrees
Public Administration is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #13 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for public administration students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 178 master's degrees in public administration to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Public Administration School for Your Master's Degree
The public admin master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on public administration students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of public administration students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public administration related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for public administration students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Administration Master's Degree Schools in Utah ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Public Administration in Utah
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in public administration.
Public Administration is one of 3 different types of Public Administration programs to choose from.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.