2025 Best Public Administration Schools in Rhode Island

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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for public administration students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 77 degrees in public administration annually.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Public Administration Schools List

Public Administration Rankings by Degree Level

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 Rhode Island ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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If you want to learn more about how we derive our rankings, see College Factual's Methodology.

Best Schools for Public Administration in Rhode Island

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.

Top Rhode Island Schools in Public Admin

1

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

20.0% Growth in Graduates

Every student who is interested in public administration needs to take a look at University of Rhode Island. URI is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Kingston.More information about a degree in public administration from University of Rhode Island

2

Rhode Island College
Providence, RI

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10.0% Growth in Graduates

It's difficult to beat Rhode Island College if you want to pursue a degree in public administration. RIC is a moderately-sized public college located in the large suburb of Providence.More information about a degree in public administration from Rhode Island College

Best Public Administration Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Public Administration Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	854	509
Connecticut	538	131
Maine	396	16
New Hampshire	395	50
Vermont	352	39

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Rankings in Majors Related to Public Admin

One of 3 majors within the Public Administration area of study, Public Administration has other similar majors worth exploring.

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.