<p>A couple of months ago, I calculated the number of graduating public policy majors at each college that offers the major. I’m not sure the numbers are helpful, but at the very least they show which colleges offer public policy at the undergraduate level. </p>
<p>172 Duke
141 USC
85 Princeton
76 UNC Chapel Hill
70 Cornell
58 Michigan
46 Georgia State
41 Chicago
31 Northwestern
29 Virginia Tech
28 Trinity (CT)
28 William & Mary
26 Stanford
25 Brown
20 Georgia Tech
20 Hobart & William Smith
19 Ole Miss
17 UC Riverside
17 Vanderbilt
16 Washington State
15 Carnegie Mellon
15 DePaul
14 Hamilton
13 RIT
13 SMU
12 Penn
11 Pomona
7 Denver
6 Dickinson
6 St. Mary’s College of Maryland
4 Rice
2 Pitzer
1 ASU
1 Scripps
0 Gettysburg
0 Swarthmore
0 URI</p>
<p>As I noted in that thread, not all of these programs are created equal. For example, Princeton’s public policy is an undergraduate program within the school of policy, so students are taking courses with dedicated public policy faculty. Chicago, on the other hand, limits its public policy school to graduate students, and the public policy program in the undergraduate college is instead a mishmash of offerings from econ and sociology professors – a very different beast. </p>
<p>Some of these programs are in consortiums and therefore offer many more courses and resources than one would otherwise get at that college; these include the Claremonts, Penn/Swarthmore, and Duke/UNC.</p>
<p>It’s perhaps worth noting that some public policy programs (e.g. Ford at Michigan) are selective, and admission to the major is not guaranteed.</p>