Public Administration at Rider University

If you plan to study public administration, take a look at what Rider University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Rider is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and has a total student population of 4,636. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 21 students received their master's degree in public admin.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Public Administration section at the bottom of this page.

Rider Public Administration Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Public Admin

Online Classes Are Available at Rider

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Rider offers distance education options for public admin at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Rider Public Administration Rankings

Public Admin Student Demographics at Rider

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public admin majors at Rider University.

Rider Public Administration Master’s Program

The public admin program at Rider awarded 21 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 10% of these degrees went to men with the other 90% going to women.

Of the students who received a public admin master's degree from Rider, 52% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the public admin master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 48% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rider University with a master's in public admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That Public Admin Grads May Go Into

A degree in public admin can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NJ, the home state for Rider University.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
General and Operations Managers	43,070	$167,600
Managers	18,370	$138,820
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	5,530	$124,130
Social and Community Service Managers	3,370	$88,570

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Magneticcarpet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.