PhD Public Policy

at University of Massachusetts - Boston

Modules:
 

• Political Economy of Class, Race and Gender
• Qualitative Methods and Field Research
• Public Policy Processes: Environments, Power and Outcomes
• Approaches to Policy Analysis: Epistemology, Theory and Institutions
• Microeconomics for Policy Analysis

A minimum, cumulative GPA of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale (or international equivalent) in all undergraduate work. 

For International Students: $28,350 per year.

Sample Alumni Positions:
 

• Energy Policy Research Analyst
• Executive Director of a community organization offering services for Latino immigrants in metro-Boston
• Executive Director of a large, nonprofit child welfare and re-unification agency in Michigan
• Health Planner
• Policy Advisor to a regional office of a federal health agency
• Post-doc Fellow and Environmental Consultant at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Regional Capacity Building Director for a national nonprofit, health promotion agency
• Researcher/Community Liaison at a university policy institute
• Senior Project Manager at Jobs for the Future
• Superintendent of Schools, Knoxville County, Tennessee
• Tenure-track, visiting, and adjunct university faculty