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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$11,819 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$52,728 Avg Salary

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

Public Administration is the #29 most popular major in Delaware with 29 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 Delaware ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Delaware to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for public admin students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Delaware

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

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

Our analysis found Delaware State University to be the best value school for public administration students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Delaware. Located in the city of Dover, Del State is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Del State graduate students pay an average of $5,510 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Del State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Public Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Delaware is a great value for public administration students working on their master’s degree. UD is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Newark.

UD graduate students pay an average of $18,128 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UD not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Public Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

Full Public Administration at University of Delaware Report

Best Value Public Administration Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 1,639
Pennsylvania 462
Maryland 171
New Jersey 369
District of Columbia 292

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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