2025 Best Public Administration Schools in Maryland
3Colleges in Maryland
248Public Admin Degrees Awarded
$59,458Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in public administration, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #60 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Public Administration Schools in Maryland ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 248 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.
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 Maryland list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Public Administration in Maryland
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.
University of Maryland Global Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in public administration. UMGC is a very large public university located in the suburb of Adelphi. A Best Colleges rank of #179 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMGC is a great university overall.
There were about 93 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UMGC in the most recent year we have data available. Public Administration degree recipients from University of Maryland Global Campus earn a boost of approximately $14,595 above the typical income of public administration graduates.
It is difficult to beat University of Baltimore if you want to pursue a degree in public administration. UB is a small public university located in the large city of Baltimore. This university ranks 19th out of 35 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were roughly 53 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UB in the most recent data year. Public Administration degree recipients from University of Baltimore earn a boost of about $8,412 above the average income of public administration majors.
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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.
It's difficult to beat Bowie State University if you wish to pursue a degree in public administration. Located in the large suburb of Bowie, Bowie State University is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 31st out of 35 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 26 public administration students who graduated with this degree at Bowie State University in the most recent year we have data available. Those public administration students who get their degree from Bowie State University earn $14,491 more than the average public admin grad.
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.
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