<p>I know that Duke and Stanford offer a public policy major, but what other top schools, specifically the Ivy's, offer a public policy major?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Michigan and University of Chicago</p>
<p>Even if other schools don't offer a pub pol major, I'm sure they offer similar courses under a different major/name. Maybe I'm wrong. Do some exploring. Most college department web sites have their departmental course offerings posted for you to peruse. I'd just be surprised if Yale or Harvard or whatever didn't offer public policy studies just because there's no official Public Policy department or major.</p>
<p>Brown has public policy in education reform and is attached to the Annenberg Center for education reform.
Some public policy programs lean toward Public Policy-Environmental or Public Policy-Educational.
Popular politicians have left legancies at certain schools to support public policy programs. Senator John Heinz, President Lydon B Johnson, President Gerald Ford come to mind from my own search for public policy prgrams at colleges.</p>
<p>Northwestern has social policy (same thing, I believe).</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, a friend from elementary school is/was a public policy major at Pomona.</p>
<p>The undergrad major in Princeton' Woodrow wilson school of international affairs is the considered the best.</p>
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<p>By whom? Passive voice is handy for random assumptions isn't it lol.</p>
<p>UPenn offers a Business & Public Policy concentration at Wharton (which I will be doing) and also offers a joint minor between the College of Arts & Sciences and Wharton in American Public Policy (it combines study in the PoliSci Department and Wharton School). One is more specific/concentrated the other is more general. Students are also allowed to take grad courses, so doing something at the Fels Institute is possible. </p>
<p>What you're looking for seems to be a more broad study area. Duke would probably be the best for that.</p>
<p>Duke certainly has a robust public policy studies department but I don't think that's why you should pick the school. You can study public policy at a number of different colleges with excellent professors and course offerings. At some of these colleges you may not be able to select a "public policy major" but the title doesn't really mean much. A lot of colleges offer you the opportunity to major in Political Science or Social studies with a Public Policy focus (or something equivalent to it), or to design your own major by gleaning course offerings from multiple departments. So I think you have a multitude of equally viable choices.</p>
<p>sorry i meant to type one of the best. </p>
<p>Princeton Woody Woo has a very strong network(well duh, its princeton), plus its central location means pleanty of seminars guest speakers, clinton, condeleeza rice</p>
<p>other good programs but not as hard to get in to: Syracuse University, University of Denver, Indiana University</p>