Most Popular Schools for Public Administration Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state, and federal government and that focuses on the systematic study of executive organization and management. Includes instruction in the roles, development, and principles of public administration; the management of public policy; executive-legislative relations; public budgetary processes and financial management; administrative law; public personnel management; professional ethics; and research methods.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	Indiana University-Bloomington	753	7%	$24,779
2	Columbia University in the City of New York	444	4%	$76,856
3	Harvard University	394	6%	$71,650
4	CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice	287	8%	$35,261
5	Florida International University	258	2%	$23,506
6	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College	242	5%	$32,681
7	Syracuse University	236	4%	$70,636
8	New York University	224	1%	$73,566
9	Grand Canyon University	220	1%	$32,100
10	California State University-Northridge	213	2%	$22,969
11	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	197	2%	$27,638
12	University of Southern California	183	1%	$74,825
13	San Diego State University	167	2%	$29,318
14	American University	163	5%	$66,268
15	University of Phoenix-Arizona	158	1%	$10,912
16	Barry University	157	10%	$46,898
17	Rutgers University-Newark	152	5%	$32,708
18	Villanova University	151	5%	$70,728
19	Walden University	150	1%	$13,020
20	University of Hawaii-West Oahu	147	24%	$8,552
21	George Mason University	146	2%	$30,284
22	Ohio State University-Main Campus	143	1%	$27,367
23	Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis	143	2%	$22,537
24	California State University-Dominguez Hills	141	3%	$23,722
25	California State University-Long Beach	137	1%	$24,738
26	Central Michigan University	131	2%	$24,889
27	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus	131	3%	$29,357
28	National University	130	2%	$15,024
29	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	128	2%	$24,035
30	University of Central Florida	126	1%	$22,548
31	The University of Texas at San Antonio	110	2%	$23,715
32	Ashford University	104	1%	$13,230
33	California State University-East Bay	103	2%	$25,143
34	University of Missouri-Columbia	101	1%	$26,766
35	The University of Texas at Arlington	101	1%	$26,660
36	Cornell University	100	2%	$73,904
37	Arkansas State University-Main Campus	99	2%	$23,101
38	Central Texas College	96	3%	$12,754
39	Texas Southern University	96	7%	$25,343
40	Grand Valley State University	96	2%	$24,948
41	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	94	1%	$33,503
42	Columbia Southern University	94	1%	$6,223
43	Pennsylvania State University-World Campus	94	2%	$15,828
44	Brigham Young University-Provo	93	1%	$18,776
45	Texas A & M University-College Station	92	1%	$29,506
46	Anna Maria College	91	21%	$54,090
47	Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus	90	5%	$58,188
48	University of San Francisco	89	3%	$68,296
49	Purdue University Fort Wayne	88	5%	$22,200
50	University of Illinois at Chicago	87	1%	$30,866
51	Kean University	83	3%	$30,475
52	Texas State University	82	1%	$23,130
53	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	81	1%	$23,811
54	American Public University System	79	1%	$6,880
55	Northwestern University	78	1%	$74,649
56	Marist College	77	4%	$58,150
57	Troy University	76	2%	$20,147
58	University of Arizona	75	1%	$29,217
59	James Madison University	75	1%	$27,356
60	University of Baltimore	74	6%	$10,558
61	Capella University	72	1%	$15,011
62	University of Georgia	71	1%	$26,688
63	California State University-Fullerton	69	1%	$27,738
64	Iowa State University	68	1%	$21,186
65	The Evergreen State College	68	6%	$23,397
66	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	67	1%	$26,834
67	Auburn University	66	1%	$31,590
68	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	66	1%	$20,471
69	SUNY at Albany	64	1%	$26,734
70	Florida Atlantic University	64	1%	$24,235
71	Western Carolina University	63	2%	$17,705
72	University of Oregon	63	1%	$27,366
73	Calumet College of Saint Joseph	63	21%	$20,670
74	The University of Texas at Dallas	63	1%	$29,286
75	University of Maryland-University College	62	0%	$7,416
76	Binghamton University	61	1%	$26,866
77	Seattle University	61	3%	$61,608
78	California Baptist University	61	2%	$47,694
79	SUNY College at Brockport	61	3%	$24,608
80	North Carolina Central University	60	4%	$24,419
81	Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix	59	2%	$29,984
82	University of Nebraska at Omaha	58	2%	$22,300
83	Purdue University Global-Davenport	58	1%	$14,343
84	Park University	57	2%	$24,499
85	Drake University	56	5%	$56,724
86	Upper Iowa University	56	4%	$43,750
87	DePaul University	55	1%	$57,678
88	University of Kansas	55	1%	$26,566
89	California State University-San Bernardino	53	1%	$23,878
90	The College of New Rochelle	53	6%	$55,694
91	Johns Hopkins University	51	1%	$71,901
92	University of Utah	51	1%	$24,472
93	Eastern Kentucky University	50	1%	$23,706
94	Belhaven University	50	4%	$35,450
95	George Washington University	50	1%	$71,930
96	Wayne State University	49	1%	$27,157
97	Southern New Hampshire University	49	0%	$51,538
98	Florida State University	48	0%	$22,168
99	Southern Utah University	48	2%	$20,420
100	University of Pennsylvania	48	1%	$74,408

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Public Administration program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.