Public Administration at Southern New Hampshire University

Every public administration school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the public admin program at Southern New Hampshire University stacks up to those at other schools.

SNHU is located in Manchester, New Hampshire and has a total student population of 134,345. Of the 15,591 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southern New Hampshire University in 2021, 35 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.

SNHU Public Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Admin

Online Classes Are Available at SNHU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SNHU offers distance education options for public admin at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

SNHU Public Administration Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the public admin progam at SNHU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The public admin major at SNHU 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Online Public Administration Graduate Certificate Schools	7
Most Focused Public Administration Graduate Certificate Schools	60
Best Public Administration Schools	153

Public Admin Student Demographics at SNHU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public admin majors at Southern New Hampshire University.

SNHU Public Administration Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 35 students earned a bachelor's degree in public admin from SNHU. About 57% of these graduates were women and the other 43% were men. The typical public admin bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% men. So male students are more repesented at SNHU since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 74% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public admin at SNHU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	26
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Human Services

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 NH, the home state for Southern New Hampshire University.

Occupation	Jobs in NH	Average Salary in NH
General and Operations Managers	12,860	$126,750
Managers	950	$123,580
Social and Community Service Managers	780	$65,380
Chief Executives	650	$180,250
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	470	$115,970

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 Kylejtod at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.