2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Public Administration

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Public administration is not an awfully in-demand major. An average concentration awards 6,156 undergraduate degrees per annum; 3,195 students received an undergraduate degree in public administration last spring, making it the United States of America's 111th most popular major. Indiana University-Bloomington​ conferred more of those degrees than any other American school (614), and schools in Indiana accounted for more degrees than any US State (766).

It may not be easy to decide the right institution, considering undergrad degrees in public administration are offered at 184 institutions in the US. Only 4.1% fewer schools offer undergrad degrees in public administration than the average subject, making it the 110th most widely offered concentration in the USA.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last spring, one in every five degrees in public administration were undergraduate degrees; 80% were postgraduate degrees. Public administration is the 15th most popular postgraduate degree in America, with 13,009 degrees awarded. To put that in context, advanced degrees in public administration are 4.7 times more popular among postgraduate students than the average course of study.

In Total, 16,204 students received a bachelor's or higher in public administration last year.

ONLINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEGREES

3,477 of those 16,204 students (21.5%) completed their degrees totally online - 262 undergrads and 3,215 master's & doctor's students. As you've presumably noticed by now, public administration is not the most popular online field. It is now the 77th most popular remote degree, and 45.6% under the US average of 481 students per major. For master's & doctor's students, it ranks 17th, with 5.2 times the average number of postgraduate students per area of study (481).

The University of Maryland Global Campus​ awarded 55 online four-year degrees, more than any other U.S. institution. Last fall, 35,971 undergraduates were attending the institution remotely, 78% of their student body. They offer 31 entirely remote fields, which is 100% of their courses.

Moreover, Colleges from Maryland awarded the most online undergraduate degrees in public administration last May (55). Maryland independently accounts for 21% of the major's remote students.

8.2% of all bachelor's degrees in public administration are completed online, (24.7% for postgrad degrees). The University of Hawaii-West Oahu's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of online public administration majors than any other U.S. school (6.59%). 42 students in their 643 student class were awarded an online undergraduate degree in public administration. They offer 3 disciplines exclusively online, and had 879 enrolled online undergrads last fall. That's 29% of the student body.

There are 39 schools in the nation with an online undergraduate degree in public administration, making it the 110th most commonly available online major. 21% of institutions providing the degree even have a completely online option, and 44% of the schools supplying the degree remotely are public. The remaining 56% are private. Florida has more totally online programs than any state, with 4 institutions located there.

If you wish to study public administration totally remotely, you may want to look at Syracuse University, as it has the 2nd best public administration program in the United States of America. It also supplies an additional 39 degrees comprehensively remotely, so their systems are likely dependable. Further, 126 online college students go to the school, which is 1% of their entire student body.

PARTIALLY ONLINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEGREES

• 843 students last year earned a four-year degree in public administration partially online
• 144 colleges in the nation have undergrad degrees in public administration partially online
• 26.38% of all undergrad degree in public administration are done partially online
• Indiana University-Bloomington​ granted 95 partially online undergrad degrees in public administration, more than any other U.S. college
• Public administration is the 20th most popular partially online graduate degree in the nation
• The average partially online major awards 1,683 annual bachelor's degrees or higher

IN-PERSON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEGREES

• Public administration is the 115th most pursued in-person four-year degree in the country
• Public administration is the 329th most widely offered in-person four-year degree around the country
• Last spring, 10,429 students earned a bachelor's or higher in public administration totally in-person
• 7.02% of Barry University's​ last undergraduate class studied public administration completely in-person, higher than any other college in the USA
• 20% of last May's exclusively in-person degrees in public administration were bachelor's degrees; 80% were advanced degrees
• 64.1% of all postgrad degrees in public administration are earned exclusively in-person