Public Administration at San Diego State University

If you plan to study public administration, take a look at what San Diego State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SDSU is located in San Diego, California and approximately 36,334 students attend the school each year. Of the 8,719 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University in 2021, 106 of them were public administration majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Public Administration section at the bottom of this page.

SDSU Public Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Admin
• Master’s Degree in Public Admin

SDSU Public Administration Rankings

The public admin major at SDSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Administration. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

In 2021, 66 students received their master’s degree in public admin from SDSU. This makes it the #49 most popular school for public admin master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of SDSU Public Admin Graduates

The median salary of public admin students who receive their bachelor's degree at SDSU is $34,977. This is less than $42,063, which is the national average of all public admin majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Public Admin Student Demographics at SDSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public admin majors at San Diego State University.

SDSU Public Administration Bachelor’s Program

The public admin program at SDSU awarded 106 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 48% of these degrees went to men with the other 52% going to women. The typical public admin bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% men. So male students are more repesented at SDSU since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 36% more racial-ethnic minorities in its public admin bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor's in public admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	17
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	56
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

SDSU Public Administration Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of public admin master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from San Diego State University with a master's in public admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	19
White	31
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

SDSU also has a doctoral program available in public admin. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Public Administration
• Social Work

Careers That Public Admin Grads May Go Into

A degree in public admin can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for San Diego State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
General and Operations Managers	249,800	$137,640
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Chief Executives	30,290	$228,270
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	18,990	$107,550
Legislators	3,140	$68,580

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Wikipedia User:Geographer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.