Public Administration at University of California - Riverside

If you are interested in studying public administration, you may want to check out the program at University of California - Riverside. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UCR is located in Riverside, California and approximately 26,434 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 11 public admin majors received their bachelor's degree from UCR.

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.

UCR Public Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Admin

UCR Public Administration Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The public admin major at UCR 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 Focused Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools	92
	97
Best Value Public Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools	99
Best Public Administration Schools	245
Best Value Public Administration Schools	314
Most Focused Public Administration Schools	379

Public Admin Student Demographics at UCR

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public admin majors at University of California - Riverside.

UCR Public Administration Bachelor’s Program

Of the 11 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in public admin from UCR in 2021, 27% were men and 73% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 49% 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 University of California - Riverside with a bachelor's in public admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Public Policy

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 University of California - Riverside.

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 Amerique under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.