2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Policy Analysis Major in North Carolina

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Policy Analysis Major in North Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Public Policy Analysis is the 135th most popular major in the country with 5,667 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across North Carolina, there were 463 general public policy analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 76 general public policy analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Policy Analysis Major in North Carolina” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general public policy analysis. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general public policy analysis.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Policy Analysis Major in North Carolina” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Policy Analysis Major in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina master’s degree general public policy analysis students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Public Policy Analysis in North Carolina

1

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Policy Analysis Major in North Carolina. Durham, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general public policy analysis degrees to 76 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on General Public Policy Analysis at Duke University

2

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#2 overall quality in North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Policy Analysis Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #2 spot on the list. UNC Chapel Hill is a large public school situated in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It awarded 190 masters’s general public policy analysis degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Full UNC Chapel Hill General Public Policy Analysis Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Public Policy Analysis in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Public Policy Analysis

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to The Official CTBTO Photostream.