Public Administration at Suffolk University

If you are interested in studying public administration, you may want to check out the program at Suffolk University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Suffolk is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 6,830 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 37 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.

Suffolk Public Administration Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Public Admin

Suffolk Public Administration Rankings

Public Admin Student Demographics at Suffolk

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

Suffolk Public Administration Master’s Program

The public admin program at Suffolk awarded 37 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 24% of these degrees went to men with the other 76% going to women.

Of the students who received a public admin master's degree from Suffolk, 57% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	21
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Public Policy
• Other Public Administration

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 MA, the home state for Suffolk University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
General and Operations Managers	77,580	$135,820
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Chief Executives	7,990	$221,810
Social and Community Service Managers	7,420	$70,500
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	3,220	$109,840

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 Oxymoron under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.