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Public policy & social work at Stanford

Stanford graduates about 16 public policy & social work majors a year, 1% of its graduating class. That puts it 24th of 406 schools we score for public policy & social work, a standout program at 84 out of 100. Research spending in the field runs about $6 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

84/100Standout#24 of 406 for public policy & social work →
Graduates a year161% of the class
Research in the field$6Ma year, NSF
Admit rate4%whole school
SAT middle 50%1500–1580whole school

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Empty research 3-Tesla MRI (GE Signa UHP) at Stanford University
GE Signa UHP MRIPhoto: BrokenSegue · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Stanford 2022 Power Outage
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Where public policy & social work happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Haas Center for Public Service.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 127 · Dorm 58 · Athletics 26 · Dining 11 · Arts 7 · Library 5.

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Nearby in the public policy & social work ranking

  1. University of California, Berkeley 85
  2. Southern Methodist University 85
  3. Gettysburg College 85
  4. New York University 84
  5. Brown University 84
  6. Rutgers University–Newark 83
  7. University of Washington 83
  8. University of Pennsylvania 83

Other strong majors at Stanford

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Stanford with every school we score in public policy & social work. It weighs the school's overall strength; how many students graduate in the major and what share of the class they are; research spending in the field (NSF); early pay against the same major nationally; how many courses the catalog lists; and test scores. 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.

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