A degree in public policy is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #113 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Tennessee to determine which ones were the best for public policy students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 104 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 Tennessee list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the public policy degrees they offer, see the list below.
Vanderbilt University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in public policy. Vanderbilt is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Nashville.
Students who receive their degree from the public policy program make around $46,483 for their early career.
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in public policy. Located in the medium-sized city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public university with a very large student population.
Graduates who receive their degree from the public policy program earn an average of $45,029 in their early career salary.
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).