Public Administration & Social Service at St Olaf College

If you plan to study public administration & social service, take a look at what St Olaf College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

St. Olaf is located in Northfield, Minnesota and has a total student population of 2,953.

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

St. Olaf Public Administration & Social Service Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration & Social Service

St. Olaf Public Administration & Social Service Rankings

The public administration & social service major at St. Olaf is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Administration & Social Service. 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.

Public Administration & Social Service Student Demographics at St. Olaf

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public administration & social service majors at St Olaf College.

St. Olaf Public Administration & Social Service Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of public administration & social service bachelor's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. The typical public administration & social service bachelor's degree program is made up of only 19% men. So male students are more repesented at St. Olaf since its program graduates 28% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public administration & social service at St. Olaf 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 St Olaf College with a bachelor's in public administration & social service.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	11
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Public Administration & Social Service

Public Administration & Social Service majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from St Olaf College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded

Related Majors

• Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies

Careers That Public Administration & Social Service Grads May Go Into

A degree in public administration & social service can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MN, the home state for St Olaf College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
General and Operations Managers	46,440	$112,120
Social and Human Service Assistants	15,000	$36,160
Managers	9,350	$128,590
Medical and Health Services Managers	8,220	$110,490
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	8,150	$55,560

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 Daniel Edwins a.k.a. Webmoof of English Wikipedia under License

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