2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in Tennessee

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Policy is the 113th most popular major in the country with 6,430 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public policy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,451 and had an average of $21,866 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 104 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,998 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,466 and $26,819 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Tennessee” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in public policy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public policy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Tennessee”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in Tennessee

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#1 overall quality in Tennessee

$31,717 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Tennessee. Vanderbilt is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 35 bachelors’s public policy degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Vanderbilt University Public Policy Report

2

Trevecca Nazarene University
Nashville, Tennessee

#16 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trevecca Nazarene University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Tennessee list. TNU is a small school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 3 bachelors’s public policy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Public Policy at Trevecca Nazarene University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy

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.

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