Best Public Administration & Social Service Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Public Administration & Social Service Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Public Administration & Social Service School for Your Doctor's Degree

The public administration & social service doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality public administration & social service program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on public administration & social service students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of public administration & social service students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for public administration & social service to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public administration & social service related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for public administration & social service students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

On account of missing data, we could not show you the public administration & social service quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer public administration & social service and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Public Administration & Social Service rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service ranking.

Best Public Administration & Social Service Colleges by State

Explore the best public administration & social service schools for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	27	382
Missouri	27	10
Kansas	26	9
Iowa	26	0
Nebraska	24	5

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Public Administration & Social Service Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	143
Human Services	90
Public Policy	13
Community Organization & Advocacy	4

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies	10

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to University of the Fraser Valley. More about our data sources and methodologies.