| Ranking | Public Finance & Budgeting Schools | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 11 | University of Michigan (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 |
| 15 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (La Follette) | Madison, WI |
| 16 | Arizona State University | Phoenix, AZ |
| 17 | State University of New York at Albany (Rockefeller) | Albany, NY |
| 18 | University of Chicago (Harris) | Chicago, IL |
| 19 | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS |
| 20 | University of Texas at Austin (LBJ) | Austin, TX |
| 21 | George Washington University (Trachtenberg) | Washington, DC |
| 22 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus (Glenn) | Columbus, OH |
| 23 | University of Southern California (Price) | Los Angeles, CA |
| 24 | American University | Washington, DC |
| 25 | Duke University (Sanford) | Durham, NC |
| 26 | Princeton University (Wilson) | Princeton, NJ |
| 27 | University of California: Berkeley (Goldman) | Berkeley, CA |
| 28 | University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL |
| 29 | George Mason University | Fairfax, VA |
| 30 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC |
| 31 | University of Washington (Evans) | Seattle, WA |