Highest Job Growth Bachelor's Public Administration Programs

These are the highest job growth bachelor's public administration programs, ranked by projected career job growth. The ranking includes 50 programs, with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leading at 10%.

Rank	Institution	State	Growth	Completers
1	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	10%	157
2	Duke University	NC	10%	144
3	Princeton University	NJ	10%	114
4	University of California-Los Angeles	CA	10%	111
5	University of Maryland-College Park	MD	10%	108
6	Brandeis University	MA	10%	101
7	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	AZ	10%	96
8	University of Chicago	IL	10%	90
9	University of California-Riverside	CA	10%	87
10	Arizona State University Digital Immersion	AZ	10%	85
11	University of Virginia-Main Campus	VA	10%	84
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	10%	77
13	Empire State University	NY	10%	59
14	University of Mississippi	MS	10%	56
15	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	VA	10%	54
16	William & Mary	VA	10%	48
17	Cornell University	NY	10%	44
18	University of Southern California	CA	10%	41
19	University of Delaware	DE	10%	40
20	Southern Methodist University	TX	10%	40
21	Trinity College	CT	10%	39
22	Georgia State University	GA	10%	38
23	Northwestern University	IL	10%	36
24	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	GA	10%	35
25	University at Albany	NY	10%	35
26	Ohio State University-Main Campus	OH	10%	32
27	Rice University	TX	10%	31
28	Gettysburg College	PA	10%	29
29	University of Rhode Island	RI	10%	28
30	Vanderbilt University	TN	10%	28
31	University of Illinois Chicago	IL	10%	27
32	The University of Texas at Dallas	TX	10%	26
33	Barnard College	NY	10%	25
34	University of Connecticut	CT	10%	23
35	College of the Holy Cross	MA	10%	23
36	Duquesne University	PA	10%	21
37	Hamilton College	NY	10%	20
38	Regent University	VA	10%	20
39	Michigan State University	MI	10%	19
40	University of Redlands	CA	10%	17
41	University of Denver	CO	10%	17
42	University of Pennsylvania	PA	10%	17
43	Stanford University	CA	10%	16
44	Pomona College	CA	10%	15
45	Brown University	RI	10%	15
46	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	NJ	10%	14
47	Dallas Baptist University	TX	10%	13
48	Claremont McKenna College	CA	10%	12
49	Mercer University	GA	10%	12
50	St. Mary's College of Maryland	MD	10%	12

Methodology

Programs ranked by average projected job growth rate across related occupations (via CIP-SOC crosswalk). Only includes bachelor's programs with at least 10 completers and matched BLS occupation data. Data from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook and College Scorecard.