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MSPPM Curriculum
If you aspire to be a future leader and manager of a public, private or non-profit organization, the MSPPM degree will help you achieve this goal. If you have a passion for academic, political and social issues, are well rounded and have an inherent propensity for questioning the status quo, you're an excellent candidate for the MSPPM program.
Our student body is comprised of a diverse group of students with a wide variety of undergraduate majors, differing types of work experience, and unique backgrounds and strengths. Together, they represent a stellar population preparing to solve the problems facing their nations.
While most public policy graduate programs focus on theory, we offer a skills-based curriculum. Due to an evolving workforce, we want you to graduate from our program with a set of skills that will allow you to shape a flexible career now and twenty years from now.
Additionally, because the future of any organization—private, public or non-profit—is affected by technology, you'll graduate with a better understanding of current trends in information technology that can help your future organization run more efficiently and strengthen its future success.
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One of America's Best Graduate Schools
Heinz College's graduate programs in public affairs once again rank among the nation's elite, according to U.S. News & World Report's qualitative and quantitative analysis of "America's Best Graduate Schools, 2009 edition."
Heinz College was ranked in the top 10 among schools of public affairs. Of the 269 schools of public affairs across the nation that were surveyed, Heinz College is ranked in the top 10 in the following specialties:
- Information and Technology Management
- Public Policy Analysis
- Environmental Policy and Management
- Health Policy and Management
How Much Can You Earn?
Current MSPPM Graduate Salaries (1yr Program):
- High: $115,000
- Low: $37,000
- Mean: $64,929
- Mean Public: $46,800
- Mean: Private: $71,200