Best Public Policy Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Public Policy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Public Policy School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of public policy for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on public policy students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other public policy students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt public policy students go into to obtain their doctor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for public policy students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Because of lacking data, we could not show you the public policy quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer public policy and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Public Policy rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Public Policy ranking.

Best Public Policy Colleges by State

Explore the best public policy colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	153	0
Michigan	149	10
Indiana	132	7

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Public Policy Related Rankings by Major

Public Policy is one of 4 different types of Public Administration & Social Service programs to choose from.

Public Policy Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Public Policy Analysis	8
Health Policy Analysis	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	21
Community Organization & Advocacy	8

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to The Official CTBTO Photostream. More about our data sources and methodologies.