1. Most Popular Schools by Degree Program
2. Public administration and social service professions
3. Public Policy Analysis, General

Most Popular Schools for General Public Policy Analysis Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the systematic analysis of public policy issues and decision processes. Includes instruction in the role of economic and political factors in public decision-making and policy formulation, microeconomic analysis of policy issues, resource allocation and decision modeling, cost/benefit analysis, statistical methods, and applications to specific public policy topics.

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Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of Chicago	274	6%	$78,555
2	Duke University	244	5%	$74,339
3	Harvard University	225	3%	$71,650
4	Princeton University	211	11%	$70,900
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	184	1%	$30,298
6	Georgetown University	173	3%	$73,840
7	University of Virginia-Main Campus	156	2%	$33,493
8	Liberty University	134	1%	$40,075
9	University of Maryland-College Park	134	1%	$27,146
10	Carnegie Mellon University	125	3%	$72,283
11	University of California-Berkeley	122	1%	$38,066
12	The University of Texas at Austin	110	1%	$26,506
13	Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix	108	3%	$29,984
14	George Mason University	97	1%	$30,284
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	93	1%	$23,811
16	University of Southern California	83	1%	$74,825
17	Brown University	81	3%	$73,802
18	SUNY Empire State College	80	2%	$8,933
19	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	78	1%	$27,898
20	University of California-Riverside	77	1%	$35,242
21	George Washington University	67	1%	$71,930
22	Cornell University	65	1%	$73,904
23	College of William and Mary	61	3%	$39,221
24	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	58	0%	$32,443
25	Georgia State University	57	1%	$26,014
26	University of Mississippi	52	1%	$25,436
27	University of California-Los Angeles	51	0%	$34,620
28	The University of Texas at Dallas	43	1%	$29,286
29	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	42	1%	$30,913
30	Trinity College	41	7%	$74,160
31	University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth	40	2%	$30,275
32	American University	39	1%	$66,268
33	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	39	0%	$33,503
34	University of Rhode Island	37	1%	$30,351
35	University of Wisconsin-Madison	35	0%	$26,025
36	Brandeis University	35	2%	$73,335
37	Michigan State University	33	0%	$28,862
38	SUNY at Albany	33	1%	$26,734
39	Stanford University	33	1%	$71,587
40	Arizona State University-Skysong	33	0%	$27,521
41	Northwestern University	30	0%	$74,649
42	University of Southern Maine	29	2%	$22,968
43	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	27	0%	$28,776
44	Washington State University	24	0%	$27,484
45	Johns Hopkins University	24	0%	$71,901
46	Regent University	24	1%	$29,763
47	University of New Hampshire-Main Campus	22	1%	$33,750
48	Pepperdine University	22	1%	$73,002
49	Stony Brook University	21	0%	$26,091
50	Vanderbilt University	21	1%	$70,146
51	Ohio State University-Main Campus	20	0%	$27,367
52	Pardee RAND Graduate School	20	100%	N/A
53	University of California-San Diego	19	0%	$32,838
54	Pomona College	18	4%	$71,996
55	Dickinson College	18	3%	$71,339
56	University of California-Irvine	18	0%	$34,261
57	DePaul University	17	0%	$57,678
58	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	17	0%	$31,510
59	University of Connecticut	16	0%	$32,404
60	University of Delaware	16	0%	$29,342
61	Saint Peter's University	15	2%	$55,200
62	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	14	0%	$26,834
63	University of Denver	14	0%	$67,656
64	University of Kentucky	14	0%	$30,101
65	Southern Methodist University	14	0%	$74,737
66	Rochester Institute of Technology	14	0%	$57,401
67	Walden University	14	0%	$13,020
68	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	13	0%	$28,058
69	University of Redlands	13	1%	$68,922
70	Portland State University	12	0%	$26,085
71	Tufts University	12	0%	$73,500
72	Oregon State University	11	0%	$26,892
73	Mills College	11	2%	$47,784
74	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	11	1%	$27,704
75	University of Houston	10	0%	$23,225
76	Monmouth University	10	1%	$56,979
77	National Louis University	10	1%	$31,050
78	University of Northern Iowa	10	0%	$20,934
79	Central Washington University	10	0%	$23,201
80	California University of Pennsylvania	9	0%	$26,644
81	Temple University	9	0%	$33,004
82	Hamilton College	9	2%	$69,990
83	University of Utah	9	0%	$24,472
84	Iowa State University	8	0%	$21,186
85	Washington University in St Louis	8	0%	$74,361
86	University of Pennsylvania	8	0%	$74,408
87	Elon University	8	1%	$51,049
88	University of Massachusetts-Boston	8	0%	$36,647
89	Marshall University	7	0%	$21,969
90	University of St Thomas	7	0%	$56,664
91	Loyola University Chicago	7	0%	$61,328
92	Tennessee State University	6	0%	$22,998
93	Bentley University	6	0%	$68,710
94	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	6	0%	$28,302
95	Adler University	6	2%	N/A
96	Drexel University	5	0%	$70,223
97	Elizabethtown College	5	1%	$60,460
98	University of Illinois at Chicago	5	0%	$30,866
99	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	5	0%	$20,471
100	The University of Texas at Arlington	5	0%	$26,660

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Public Policy Analysis, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.