Public Policy is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #121 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Public Policy Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 132 bachelor's degrees in public policy to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to public policy students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other public policy students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt public policy students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public policy related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for public policy students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Policy Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Featured Public Policy Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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Princeton University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in public policy. Princeton is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Princeton.
Those public policy students who get their bachelor's degree from Princeton University receive $11,274 more than the typical public policy student.
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in public policy. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public university located in the small city of New Brunswick.
After graduating, public policy bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $51,082 at the beginning of their careers.
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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