2025 Best Public Administration Schools in Connecticut
3Colleges in Connecticut
161Public Admin Degrees Awarded
Public Administration is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #49 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of public administration. Combined, these schools handed out 161 degrees in public administration to qualified students.
Your choice of public administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Administration Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Public Administration in Connecticut
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the public admin degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's hard to beat University of Connecticut if you want to pursue a degree in public administration. Located in the fringe town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #57 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were roughly 81 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year.
Post University is a good option for students pursuing a degree in public administration. Post University is a very large private for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Waterbury. This university ranks 16th out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 27 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Post University 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.
Every student who is interested in public administration has to look into Sacred Heart University. Sacred Heart is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Fairfield. This university ranks 9th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 14 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Sacred Heart in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of public administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
