2025 Best Public Policy Schools in the New England Region
8Colleges in the New England Region
1,086Public Policy Degrees Awarded
$56,036Avg Early-Career Salary
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 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the New England Region 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 1,086 degrees in public policy annually.
Your choice of public policy school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for public policy schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Public Policy in the New England Region
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.
Brandeis University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in public policy. Brandeis is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Waltham. A Best Colleges rank of #119 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Brandeis is a great university overall.
There were approximately 219 public policy students who graduated with this degree at Brandeis in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the public policy program earn around $48,352 for their early career.
It's hard to beat Brown University if you wish to pursue a degree in public policy. Brown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Providence. A Best Colleges rank of #26 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Brown is a great university overall.
There were approximately 123 public policy students who graduated with this degree at Brown in the most recent data year. Those public policy students who get their degree from Brown University earn $4,088 more than the average public policy grad.
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Trinity College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in public policy. Located in the medium-sized city of Hartford, Trinity Bantams is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #136 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Trinity Bantams is a great college overall.
There were approximately 51 public policy students who graduated with this degree at Trinity Bantams in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the public policy program state that they receive average early career wages of $56,902.
University of Connecticut is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in public policy. UCONN is a very large public university located in the town of Storrs. A Best Colleges rank of #57 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were approximately 55 public policy students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, public policy degree recipients typically earn about $33,424 in their early careers.
Located in the large city of Boston, UMass Boston is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 25th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 37 public policy students who graduated with this degree at UMass Boston in the most recent data year.
URI is a large public university located in the suburb of Kingston. This university ranks 5th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were roughly 50 public policy students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the public policy program report average early career wages of $32,536.
Located in the fringe town of Durham, UNH is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 17 schools for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were about 26 public policy students who graduated with this degree at UNH in the most recent year we have data available.
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University of Southern Maine is a moderately-sized public university located in the small city of Portland. This university ranks 11th out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maine.
There were about 23 public policy students who graduated with this degree at University of Southern Maine in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of public policy school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for public policy schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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