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2023 Best Value Public Administration Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$11,689 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,924 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Administration 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Public Administration Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Delaware to see which 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 Schools in Delaware

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for public admin majors pursuing a .

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality in Public Administration

$8,358 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Delaware State University the best value school in Delaware for public administration students. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Del State are $8,358 per year.

Del State also made our Best Public Administration Schools in Delaware list, coming in at #3.

Read full report on Public Administration at Delaware State University

$15,020 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Delaware landed the # 2 spot on the list. UD is a very large public school located in the suburb of Newark.

UD undergraduate students pay an average of $15,020 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UD is ranked #1 for overall quality for public admin in Delaware.

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 Colleges 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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