2025 Best Public Administration Schools in Wisconsin
3Colleges in Wisconsin
64Public Admin Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in public administration, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #49 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of public administration. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 degrees in public administration annually.
Your choice of public administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for public administration schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Public Administration Schools in Wisconsin list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Public Administration in Wisconsin
The schools below may not offer all types of public admin degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in public administration needs to check out University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. Located in the city of La Crosse, UW - La Crosse is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #380 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UW - La Crosse is a great university overall.
There were roughly 14 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UW - La Crosse in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee if you want to pursue a degree in public administration. Located in the city of Milwaukee, UWM is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were roughly 9 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UWM in the most recent year we have data available.
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Prepare yourself to make the decisions that best serve a community, its constituents and its economic growth with this specialized business degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in public administration. Located in the small city of Oshkosh, UW Oshkosh is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 34th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were about 20 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UW Oshkosh in the most recent data year.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).