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2023 Best Value Public Administration Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,740 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$52,728 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Administration Master's Degree School for You

Public Administration is the #58 most popular major in Wisconsin with 44 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Public Administration Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Wisconsin to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for public admin students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Public Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Public Administration Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Wisconsin Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Public Administration

Our 2023 rankings named University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh the best value school in Wisconsin for public administration students working on their master’s degree. Located in the small city of Oshkosh, UW Oshkosh is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UW Oshkosh are $9,260 a year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a great value for public administration students working on their master’s degree. UWM is a very large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UWM are $12,220 per year.

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Best Value Public Administration Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Public Administration Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 263
Illinois 440
Ohio 293
Indiana 449

One of 5 majors within the area of study, public administration has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Social Work 33,631
Public Policy 3,737
Human Services 1,277
Community Organization & Advocacy 741
Other Public Administration 295

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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).
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