Social policy and administration consists of the study of guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare, such as a person's quality of life.

Depending on the country, undergraduate courses in this field are either three or four years long, with a further one or two years for postgraduation.

Top Colleges 
Rank College/University Website Country
1 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) http://www.lse.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
2 Harvard University https://www.harvard.edu/ United States
3 University of Oxford www.ox.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
4 University of Cambridge https://www.cam.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
5 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) https://www.berkeley.edu/ United States
6 Stanford University https://www.stanford.edu/ United States
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) www.mit.edu/ United States
8 University of Chicago https://www.uchicago.edu/ United States
9 University of York https://www.york.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
10 The Australian National University https://www.anu.edu.au/ Australia

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