2025 Best Public Administration Schools in Connecticut
3Colleges in Connecticut
161Public Admin Degrees Awarded
$59,458Avg Early-Career Salary
Public Administration is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #60 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for public administration students pursuing a degree. 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. For our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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 Connecticut list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Best Schools for Public Administration in Connecticut
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the public admin degree levels they offer.
University of Connecticut is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in public administration. Located in the 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 about 81 public administration students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year. Those public administration students who get their degree from University of Connecticut receive $5,906 more than the standard public admin grad.
It's hard to beat Post University if you wish to pursue a degree in public administration. Post University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the midsize 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. Public Administration degree recipients from Post University receive an earnings boost of about $9,415 above the average income of public administration graduates.
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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.
Sacred Heart University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in public administration. Sacred Heart is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Fairfield. This university ranks 9th out of 18 colleges 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 data year.
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. For our Best Overall Public Administration School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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