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Earn a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University in Adelaide, Australia. Applied learning in our global classroom environemnt will be your competitive career advantage.

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Significant Scholarships are available for talented students - APPLY NOW for January and August 2012.

The Carnegie Mellon University – Australia is based in the heart of Adelaide, South Australia. And is a truly global university community with students, faculty and staff representing more than 25 countries around the world. Adelaide is renowned for its vibrant culture, relaxed lifestyle and numerous attractions. An ideal city in which to live and learn, with a culturally diverse population of 1.2 million people including 23,000 international students.

 

 

The Australia campus offers two of Carnegie Mellon University’s highly-ranked and internationally renowned Master degree programs:

• Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (one and two-year tracks available)
• Master of Science in Information Technology (one and two-year tracks available)

Carnegie Mellon University – Australia upholds high admissions standards for these competitive and challenging programs to ensure they maintain the integrity of earning a degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. Whether earned in Pittsburgh, Washington DC or Adelaide, the degree is the same.

ACCESS TO GLOBAL POLICY EXPERTS

Students at Carnegie Mellon University – Australia are given exclusive access to leading global experts in the fields of IT and Public Policy. Recent Guest Lecturers include:

• Special Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, G. Edward DeSeve
• President of the Annapolis Institute for Leadership & Technology and former Group Managing Director at Telstra, Dr Phil Burgess
• U.S. expert on budget debt and deficit, Professor Steve Redburn
• U.S. based global health expert and former First Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Dr Jack Chow 

A DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY

Terry F. Buss, Ph.D.,is Executive Director and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University – Australia’s Heinz College. Buss earned his doctorate in political science and mathematics at Ohio State University. Over the past 30 years, Buss has built his career in both academe and government, in the following roles:

• Directed the program in International, Security and Defense Studies at the National Academy of Public Administration
• Served as Dean of the School of Policy and Management at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami
• Senior policy advisor at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC
• Chaired the Department of Public Management in the Sawyer School of Business at Suffolk University in Boston
• Senior strategy advisor to the vice president for training and technical assistance at the World Bank and Secretariat for the development of the World Bank’s Global Distance Learning Network (GDLN)
• Director of the Ph.D. program, and Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, at the University of Akron in Ohio
• Director of Research at the St Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center/Northeast Ohio College of Medicine
• Directed the U.S. Information Agency technical assistance program in Hungary for three years immediately following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Buss replicated this program in Russia
• Worked on leave with the Council of Governors Policy Advisors, an affiliate of the National Governors Association as a Senior Advisor as an unprecedented two-time Fulbright Scholar winner in Hungary, working with the Minister of the Interior and Budapest University of Economic Science. He also received two fellowships with the Congressional Research Service, where he authored policy studies mandated by Congress

MORE INFORMATION ON PROFESSOR TERRY BUSS

At Carnegie Mellon University – Australia our goal is to teach individuals who influence the world in which we live, or are well poised to positively influence the world in ways which we cannot yet imagine.

 

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