Find Affordable College Courses

What Do You Want to Study?

Most Popular Online Public & Social Service Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

2023 Most Popular Online Public & Social Service Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

4 Colleges
$55,530 Avg Salary
$25,500 Avg Student Debt

Public Administration & Social Service is the #14 most popular major in the country with 98,583 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Online Public & Social Service Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the New England Region to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for public administration and social service majors pursuing an online graduate certificate.

Our 2023 rankings named University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth the most popular online school in the New England Region for public administration and social service students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized suburb of North Dartmouth, UMass Dartmouth is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Of the 36 students majoring in public administration and social service at UMass Dartmouth, 39% are male and 61% are female.

Full Public Administration & Social Service at University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth Report

Request Information

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Southern New Hampshire University is a great place for public administration and social service students working on their online graduate certificate. SNHU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Manchester.

Women make up 27% of the public administration and social service majors at the school.

Read More…

Request Information
#3

Norwich University

Northfield, VT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Norwich University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Public & Social Service Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Norwich is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Northfield.

Women make up 50% of the public administration and social service majors at the school.

Read full report on Public Administration & Social Service at Norwich University

Request Information
#4

Post University

Waterbury, CT

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Post University is a great place for public administration and social service students working on their online graduate certificate. Post University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the midsize suburb of Waterbury.

Full Public Administration & Social Service at Post University Report

Request Information

Explore the most popular online public administration and social service schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 749
Maine 480
Rhode Island 426
Massachusetts 3,668
Connecticut 1,271
Vermont 233

More Public Administration & Social Service Rankings in the New England Region

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 4 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.

Find Schools Near You

Our free school finder matches students with accredited colleges across the U.S.