Public Policy (MPP)

专业详情

The Public Policy program offers a Bachelor of Arts, an honors program, a minor for undergraduates, a coterminal M.A. in Public Policy, a two-year professional Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) degree, and a one-year non-professional Master of Arts in Public Policy (M.A.).

Admission to the M.P.P. and M.A. programs is restricted to current Stanford undergraduates and graduate students, Stanford alumni (who have graduated within the past 5 years), and external applicants seeking a joint graduate degree.

The mission of the graduate program in Public Policy is to provide students with the advanced skills necessary to assess the performance of alternative approaches to policy making and implementation, evaluate program effectiveness, understand the political constraints faced by policy-makers, and appreciate the conflicts in fundamental human values that often animate policy debate. After completing the graduate core curriculum, students apply these skills by focusing their studies in a two-quarter, 10-unit practicum for the M.P.P. degree or a 5-unit master’s thesis for the M.A. degree. Each student in the M.P.P. program also completes at least one concentration tailored to the student’s primary degree program or the student’s interests and skills. Current concentrations include:

• Computational Public Policy
• Education Policy
• Health Care Policy
• International and National Security Policy
• Legal and Regulatory Intervention
• Political and Moral Philosophy
• Resources, Environment, and Energy Policy
• Science and Technology Policy
• Self-designed (requires detailed statement of study goals, relationship of each proposed course to those goals, and commitment by a supervising faculty member)
• Urban and Regional Policy