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The Master of Public Policy (MPP) at William Paterson University is centered on educating students to become critical and creative policy thinkers. Our program is centered on training students to think critically about public policy and to provide them with the required tools for understanding and creating public policy. Our program emphasizes courses in applied policy areas from environmental policy to immigration, social inequality, public management, urban policy, labor policy, and much more. Our faculty is highly distinguished in their respective fields and our courses are designed to train students to be able to understand the complex relations between the economic, political and social dimensions of public policy. The program’s interdisciplinary curriculum provides the training you need to become an effective innovator and problem solver by integrating the practical and theoretical, and the domestic and international dimensions of policy making and management.
Students from our program have gone on to work in public policy, government, policy research, academia, journalism, law, non-profit management, NGOs, and many other fields. Our curriculum is designed to train you regardless of your educational background, so no previous training in public policy or social science is required. We also have designed our courses so that they can be taken in the evening for those with full-time jobs.
August 1st: Fall semesterDecember 1st: Spring semester*Applications received after the deadline will be reviewed on a space availability basis*International students are advised to apply by:April 1st: Fall (September intake)November 1st: Spring (January intake)
Professor Wendy WrightGraduate Director, Department of Political Science, Legal, and Urban Studies wrightw1@wpunj.edu
A Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from an accredited college or university and official transcripts from all institutions of higher learning attended.
"I found the Public Policy and Inter- national Affairs Master's Program to be a transformative experience.... " [more] -- Mark Major, '06 graduate, Lecturer, Political Science, Penn State University.
"I loved ... the personal inter-action between faculty and students and the absolute lack of formality in classes...." [more] -- Priya Ravichandran, '08 graduate, Programme Officer at The Takshashila Institution, India.
" Upon graduation I landed a job with the Michael J. Fox Foundation.... I beat out about 70 candidates for the position, which is probably due to the fact that I got a fabulous graduate education.” [more] -- Kristina Lopez, 2010 graduate
"... you also begin to look at the world in a different way. You see the underlying forces of how the world functions." [more] -- Austin Ayers, current student, staff, Cong. Pascrell
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