Best school for public policy

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Why study political science if you’re interested in policy? There are many excellent undergraduate programs in public policy. US News has the following as the best graduate programs in public policy (an undergrad ranking doesn’t exist).

  1. Berkeley
  2. Harvard
  3. Michigan
  4. Duke
  5. Chicago
  6. Syracuse
  7. Indiana
  8. Carnegie Mellon
  9. Princeton
  10. Wisconsin
  11. USC
  12. UT Austin / Washington
  13. GWU
  14. Georgetown
  15. Ohio State
  16. Minnesota
  17. UGA
  18. NYU / UCLA
  19. FSU
  20. ASU / Georgia Tech / Georgia State / Texas A&M
  21. American / Maryland
  22. Rutgers / Kentucky
  23. Columbia / JHU / Albany
  24. GMU / Stanford / UNC

As another, probably less useful data point, the following colleges had more than 30 graduates in public policy last year:

158 Duke
141 Princeton
88 Chicago
70 Brandeis
69 UVA
67 SUNY EMpire State College
65 Michigan
63 Arizona State
61 UC Riverside / UNC
58 Cornell / Georgia State
39 Ole Miss
37 William & Mary
34 Northwestern
31 Trinity
30 URI