If you plan on majoring in public policy, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #113 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for public policy students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 154 degrees in public policy during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Policy Schools in Rhode Island ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the public policy degree levels they offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in public policy has to look into Brown University. Located in the city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Public Policy degree recipients from Brown University get an earnings boost of around $10,502 above the typical income of public policy graduates.
It is hard to beat University of Rhode Island if you wish to pursue a degree in public policy. Located in the large suburb of Kingston, URI is a public university with a large student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the public policy program state that they receive average early career earnings of $22,911.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).