Public Administration at University of Northern Iowa

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

UNI is located in Cedar Falls, Iowa and approximately 9,507 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 11 public admin majors received their bachelor's degree from UNI.

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.

UNI Public Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Admin

UNI Public Administration Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks public admin programs across the country. The following shows how UNI performed in these rankings.

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 UNI 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
	30
Most Focused Public Administration Schools	325

Public Admin Student Demographics at UNI

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

UNI Public Administration Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 11 public admin majors earned their bachelor's degree from UNI. Of these graduates, 82% were men and 18% were women. The typical public admin bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% men. So male students are more repesented at UNI since its program graduates 41% more men than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in public admin at UNI 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 University of Northern Iowa with a bachelor's in public admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UNI 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
• 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 IA, the home state for University of Northern Iowa.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
General and Operations Managers	23,570	$99,720
Managers	2,880	$101,360
Social and Community Service Managers	2,310	$58,410
Chief Executives	2,020	$211,560
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	1,390	$84,960

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 Feddacheenee under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.