据USNews官方介绍，2015年USNews美国大学研究生最佳公共事务学院排名主要参考以下六大因素：1、师生比;2、研究费用;3、录取比率;4、本科平均学分;5、GRE LSAT GMAT平均分;6、毕业即成功就业率。
以下为2015USNews美国大学研究生最佳公共事务学院详细排名
| 排名 | 学校 | 得分 |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Syracuse University (Maxwell) Syracuse, NY |
4.5 |
| #2 | Indiana University—Bloomington Bloomington, IN |
4.4 |
| #3 | Harvard University (Kennedy) Cambridge, MA |
4.3 |
| #4 | University of Georgia Athens, GA |
4.2 |
| #5 | Princeton University (Wilson) Princeton, NJ |
4.1 |
| #6 | New York University (Wagner) New York, NY |
4.0 |
| #6 | University of California—Berkeley (Goldman) Berkeley, CA |
4.0 |
| #6 | University of Southern California (Price) Los Angeles, CA |
4.0 |
| #9 | Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz) Pittsburgh, PA |
3.9 |
| #9 | University of Kansas Lawrence, KS |
3.9 |
| #9 | University of Washington (Evans) Seattle, WA |
3.9 |
| #12 | American University Washington, DC |
3.8 |
| #12 | George Washington University (Trachtenberg) Washington, DC |
3.8 |
| #12 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ford) Ann Arbor, MI |
3.8 |
| #12 | University of Wisconsin—Madison (La Follette) Madison, WI |
3.8 |
| #16 | Arizona State University Phoenix, AZ |
3.7 |
| #16 | Duke University (Sanford) Durham, NC |
3.7 |
| #16 | Florida State University (Askew) Tallahassee, FL |
3.7 |
| #16 | University at Albany—SUNY (Rockefeller) Albany, NY |
3.7 |
| #16 | University of Kentucky (Martin) Lexington, KY |
3.7 |
| #16 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Humphrey) Minneapolis, MN |
3.7 |
| #16 | University of Texas—Austin (LBJ) Austin, TX |
3.7 |
| #23 | Georgetown University Washington, DC |
3.6 |
| #23 | Georgia State University (Young) Atlanta, GA |
3.6 |
| #23 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—Newark Newark, NJ |
3.6 |
| #23 | University of California—Los Angeles (Luskin) Los Angeles, CA |
3.6 |
| #23 | University of Chicago (Harris) Chicago, IL |
3.6 |
| #23 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC |
3.6 |
| #29 | Columbia University New York, NY |
3.5 |
| #29 | Ohio State University (Glenn) Columbus, OH |
3.5 |
