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 North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for public policy students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 463 degrees in public policy to qualified students.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Public Policy Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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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 who is interested in public policy has to look into Duke University. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Those public policy students who get their degree from Duke University make $6,589 more than the typical public policy grad.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in public policy. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the city of Chapel Hill.
Students who graduate with their degree from the public policy program report average early career earnings of $39,751.
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).
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