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 |
