2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Minnesota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Minnesota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Administration is the 49th most popular major in the country with 15,999 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Minnesota, there were 468 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,977 and $22,716 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Minnesota” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public administration. That schools that top this list have a program in public administration 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Minnesota”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Minnesota

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Winona State University
Winona, Minnesota

#13 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Winona State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Minnesota list. Winona State University is a public institution located in Winona, Minnesota. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Administration at Winona State

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.