MSPPM Concentrations

Learn to influence cyber policy and understand the growing threat landscape affecting public, private, and non-profit organizations. Courses include:

• Information Security Management
• Survey of Security Policy
• Information Security Risk Analysis
• Cryptography
• Network Situational Awareness

Prepare yourself for leadership in energy systems and related fields with this concentration offered in partnership with the CMU College of Engineering. Courses include:

• Energy Conversion and Supply
• Energy Transport and Storage
• Energy Demand and Utilization
• Energy Policy and Economics
• Energy and the Environment

Tackle environmental policy challenges that affect the air we breathe, the water we drink, the way we live, and how communities and cities can grow responsibly and sustainably. Courses include:

• Environmental Policy and Planning
• Energy and the Environment
• Sustainable Community Development
• Environmental Politics and Policy
• Cities, Technology, and the Environment

Learn to think critically and solve problems within the complex economic, political, and financial environment in which health care is delivered. Courses include:

• Health Systems
• Health Policy
• Health Law
• Intro to Financial Management of Health Care
• Population Health
• Health Care GIS

Students wishing to work for international organizations or collaborate with international partners can explore the impacts of globalization on society, business, and politics. Courses include:

• Policy in a Global Economy
• Economics of Development
• Technology for International Development
• Corruption, Development, and Democracy
• Macroeconomics

A deep dive into management, planning, human resources, decision-making, and analytic strategies within organizations that serve the public interest. Courses include:

• Evidence-Based Management
• Developing as a Leader
• Human Resources Policy and Planning
• Organizational Change
• Management Consulting

Prepare for an impactful career as a policy analyst, taking on high-level and big-picture policy problems relevant to the public and non-profit sectors. Courses include:

• Program Evaluation
• Applied Econometrics
• Methods of Policy Analysis
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Legislative Policymaking
• Money and Politics

This concentration is specifically targeted to provide a background in the theory and practice of non-profit finance, ideal for students seeking financial roles in the public or non-profit sectors. Courses include:

• Budgeting and Management Control
• Public Finance
• Accounting and Control in Not-for-Profit Organizations
• Regional Finance and Education Policy
• Cost-Benefit Analysis

This concentration is tailored toward students who wish to lead digital transformation at the community level. Integrating technology, social science, design, and management, coursework is drawn from across the university and covers ethical deployment of technology, smart mobility, connectivity, sustainability, and resilience. Courses include:

• Smart Cities: Growth and Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Privacy, Policy, Technology, and the Law
• AI, Society, and Humanity
• Policies of Wireless Systems
• Resilient and Sustainable Communities
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Support companies and startups that will develop sustainable and financially stable ventures, projects, and policy initiatives in the public interest. Courses include:

• Foundations of Social Innovation
• Social Enterprise Incubator
• Design and Policy for Humanitarian Impact
• Economics of Development
• Intro to Supply Chain Management

Influence policy that will spur growth at the local, regional, and state levels with a thorough understanding of the forces that drive economic development programs and strategies. Courses include:

• Urban and Regional Economic Development
• Urban Development
• Real Estate Development
• Technology and Economic Growth
• Growth with Intelligent Transportation