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2023 Best Value Public & Social Service Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$11,819 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,536 Avg Salary

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

Public Administration & Social Service is one of the most popular subjects to study in Delaware. With 160 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 5th out of all the majors we track in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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 & Social Service Master's Degree 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 master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for public administration and social service students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware

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

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Public & Social Service

Our 2023 rankings named Delaware State University the best value school in Delaware for public administration and social service students working on their master’s degree. Del State is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Dover.

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 & Social Service Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

Full Public Administration & Social Service at Delaware State University Report

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. Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UD are $18,128 per year.

UD also took the #1 spot in our Best Public & Social Service Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware rankings.

Read full report on Public Administration & Social Service at University of Delaware

Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 6,455
Pennsylvania 2,116
Maryland 1,050
New Jersey 1,665
District of Columbia 820

Public Administration & Social Service Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Social Work 33,631
Public Administration 13,571
Public Policy 3,737
Human Services 1,277
Community Organization & Advocacy 741
Other Public Administration 295

Related Major Annual Graduates
Legal Professions 45,189
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 13,045
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 10,452
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 1,613

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to University of the Fraser Valley.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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