2022 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Doctorate in Kansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Doctorate in Kansas” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Public Administration & Social Service is the 14th most popular major in the country with 97,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,142 and had an average of $32,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kansas, there were 828 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,682 and $27,990 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,017 and $87,459 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration and social service programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public administration and social service program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Doctorate in Kansas” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Doctorate in Kansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Doctorate in Kansas.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Kansas

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$25,007 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Doctorate in Kansas list. Lawrence, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s public administration and social service degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at KU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration & Social Service Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kansas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kansas are $25,007, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Public Administration & Social Service at KU

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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