College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Political Science
www.kent.edu/polisci/mpa


Contact Information

Fully Offered

  • Delivery:
    • Fully online

Admission Terms

  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Summer

Examples of Possible Careers*

Chief executives

  • -10.0% decline
  • 287,900 number of jobs
  • $185,950 potential earnings

General and operations managers

  • 5.8% faster than the average
  • 2,486,400 number of jobs
  • $103,650 potential earnings

Legislators

  • 6.2% faster than the average
  • 53,700 number of jobs
  • $33,200 potential earnings

Postmasters and mail superintendents

  • -21.9% decline
  • 13,400 number of jobs
  • $78,060 potential earnings

Social and community service managers

  • 17.0% much faster than the average
  • 175,500 number of jobs
  • $69,600 potential earnings

Transportation, storage, and distribution managers

  • 3.5% about as fast as the average
  • 139,400 number of jobs
  • $96,390 potential earnings

*Note

Source of occupation titles and labor data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook. Data comprises projected percent change in employment over the next 10 years; nation-wide employment numbers; and the yearly median wage at which half of the workers in the occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.