Public Policy at SUNY Cortland

Every public policy school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the public policy program at SUNY Cortland stacks up to those at other schools.

SUNY Cortland is located in Cortland, New York and has a total student population of 6,832. Of the 1,739 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Cortland in 2021, 2 of them were public policy majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Public Policy section at the bottom of this page.

SUNY Cortland Public Policy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Policy

SUNY Cortland Public Policy Rankings

The public policy major at SUNY Cortland is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Policy. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Public Policy Student Demographics at SUNY Cortland

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the public policy majors at SUNY Cortland.

SUNY Cortland Public Policy Bachelor’s Program

Of the 2 public policy students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from SUNY Cortland, about 100% were men and 0% were women. The typical public policy bachelor's degree program is made up of only 39% men. So male students are more repesented at SUNY Cortland since its program graduates 61% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its public policy bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from SUNY Cortland with a bachelor's in public policy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

SUNY Cortland also has a doctoral program available in public policy. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Community Organization & Advocacy

Careers That Public Policy Grads May Go Into

A degree in public policy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for SUNY Cortland.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Medical and Health Services Managers	25,830	$143,030
Health Specialties Professors	22,170	$127,230
Legislators	6,220	$90,050
Education Professors	5,590	$88,580
Social Scientists	2,410	$84,940

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Publicganda under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.