A Faster MSPPM Path for Experienced Professionals
By leveraging your experience and a challenging, fast-paced curriculum, you can minimize your time away from the workforce, returning as an indispensable problem-solver with the ability to have an immediate impact.
If you have three years or more of relevant professional experience*, MSPPM: Fast Track provides the same degree in public policy problem-solving and evidence-based management as our traditional MSPPM: Pittsburgh, but in an accelerated format.
In this full-time professional graduate degree program, students have opportunities to work with industry clients on real-world problems via Capstone Projects, bringing theory into practice. Due to the experience level of Fast Track candidates, summer internships (between the second and third semesters) are optional.
With a MSPPM from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, you will come out ready to use your skills to lead meaningful change.
*Certain criteria—including service work and military service—can exempt professional experience requirement. See MSPPM admissions for more details.
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Duration: 16 months / 3 semesters (Fall, Spring, Fall)
For detailed curriculum information, please visit the MSPPM Program Handbook.
Below is one possible schedule for MSPPM: Fast Track. Actual schedules will vary depending on pathway, concentrations, and electives.
Class titles in bold are core courses. Heinz College offers a mix of full-semester (14 weeks) and half-semester courses (7 weeks) for core and elective courses.
--OPTIONAL SUMMER INTERNSHIP--
*Half-semester courses
Compare all four MSPPM options at a glance
The MSPPM program is offered in four distinct modalities—Pittsburgh (Two-Year), Data Analytics, Washington D.C., and Fast Track (Three-Semester). Compare all four and choose the path that best suits your mission.
