Public Policy
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Early Career Income
$92,176
Lifetime Income
$4.65M
Unemployment rate
2.6%
Female share
54.0%
Occupation concentration
41.4%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
32.5%
% who double-major
48.7%
BA Graduates from 2024
2,466
-0.2% vs 2023
How Public Policy compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
72nd
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 72% of majors
53rd
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 53% of majors
38th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 38% of majors
Top occupations
- Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- Management Analysts
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Public Policy.
- Public Policy Analysis, General
- Education Policy Analysis
- Health Policy Analysis
- International Policy Analysis
- Public Policy Analysis, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology