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Most Popular Public & Social Service Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

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2023 Most Popular Public & Social Service Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

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$55,530 Avg Salary
$25,500 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Public Administration & Social Service Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, public administration and social service students earned 190 degrees and certificates from a Rhode Island school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Public & Social Service Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island ranking. This report analyzed 1 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Public Administration & Social Service program at each school on the list.

The school below is the most popular for public administration and social service majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Our 2023 rankings named Roger Williams University the most popular school in Rhode Island for public administration and social service students working on their graduate certificate. RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Bristol.

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Best Public Administration & Social Service Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Most Popular Public Administration & Social Service Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 2,705
Connecticut 684
New Hampshire 143
Maine 292
Vermont 84

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

Majors Similar to Public Administration & Social Service

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 values are for the top school 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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