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2023 Best Value Public & Social Service Doctor's Degree Schools in Louisiana

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$28,273 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$69,877 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Administration & Social Service Doctor's Degree School for You

Public Administration & Social Service is the #12 most popular major in Louisiana with 1,118 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Public & Social Service Doctor's Degree Schools in Louisiana to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Louisiana to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for public administration and social service students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Doctor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Louisiana Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Public & Social Service

Our analysis found Southern University and A & M College to be the best value school for public administration and social service students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Louisiana. Southern University and A & M College is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of Baton Rouge.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Southern University and A & M College are $10,658 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Public & Social Service Doctor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana list. Louisiana State University is a very large public school located in the city of Baton Rouge.

Louisiana State University graduate students pay an average of $13,031 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Louisiana State University also made our Best Public & Social Service Doctor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana list, coming in at #4.

Read full report on Public Administration & Social Service at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Out of the 3 schools in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of New Orleans, Tulane is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Tulane are $61,130 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Tulane is ranked #5 for overall quality for public administration and social service in Louisiana.

Full Public Administration & Social Service at Tulane University of Louisiana Report

Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 2,840
West Virginia 504
Florida 4,199
Virginia 2,154
Arkansas 683
Mississippi 752
South Carolina 708
Tennessee 1,564
Alabama 1,668
Kentucky 2,072
Georgia 1,475

Public Administration & Social Service Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Social Work 58,326
Public Administration 16,905
Human Services 13,238
Public Policy 6,430
Community Organization & Advocacy 3,096
Other Public Administration 588

Related Major Annual Graduates
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 142,610
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 73,813
Legal Professions 61,055
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 4,477

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to University of the Fraser Valley.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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