据USNews官方介绍，2015年USNews美国大学研究生公共财政与预算专业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美国大学研究生公共财政与预算专业详细排名
| 排名 | 学校 |
|---|---|
| #1 | Syracuse University (Maxwell) Syracuse, NY |
| #2 | University of Kentucky (Martin) Lexington, KY |
| #3 | Indiana University—Bloomington Bloomington, IN |
| #4 | Georgia State University (Young) Atlanta, GA |
| #5 | University of Georgia Athens, GA |
| #6 | University of Nebraska—Omaha Omaha, NE |
| #7 | University of Connecticut West Hartford, CT |
| #8 | New York University (Wagner) New York, NY |
| #9 | Harvard University (Kennedy) Cambridge, MA |
| #10 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—Newark Newark, NJ |
| #10 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ford) Ann Arbor, MI |
| #12 | Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL |
| #13 | Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz) Pittsburgh, PA |
| #14 | University of Maryland—College Park College Park, MD |
| #14 | University of Wisconsin—Madison (La Follette) Madison, WI |
| #16 | Arizona State University Phoenix, AZ |
| #16 | University at Albany—SUNY (Rockefeller) Albany, NY |
| #16 | University of Chicago (Harris) Chicago, IL |
| #16 | University of Kansas Lawrence, KS |
| #16 | University of Texas—Austin (LBJ) Austin, TX |
| #21 | George Washington University (Trachtenberg) Washington, DC |
| #21 | Ohio State University (Glenn) Columbus, OH |
| #21 | University of Southern California (Price) Los Angeles, CA |
| #24 | American University Washington, DC |
| #24 | Duke University (Sanford) Durham, NC |
| #26 | Princeton University (Wilson) Princeton, NJ |
| #26 | University of California—Berkeley (Goldman) Berkeley, CA |
| #26 | University of Illinois—Chicago Chicago, IL |
| #29 | George Mason University Fairfax, VA |
| #29 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC |
| #29 | University of Washington (Evans) Seattle, WA |