MPAff Public Affairs at University of Texas at Austin

Programme overview

This degree program aims to provide students with the skills and understanding required for effective professional leadership in developing and implementing public policies. Students may elect to organize their studies around certain areas of concentration. Depending on their qualifications, students can pursue the degree through the regular program or through a dual degree program arrangement. The curriculum combines courses in politics and the policy process, economic analysis, empirical methods, and management with a practical applications sequence that includes a client-oriented policy research project.

Faculty: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs | Duration: 32 semester credit hours | Study mode: full-time | Location: Austin, TX, United States

What you will study

The programme requires 32 semester credit hours. Up to nine hours may be waived and substituted with approved electives if a student demonstrates prior training and proficiency substantially equivalent to core courses in introductory quantitative methods, microeconomics, and public financial management.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Graduate admission (applies to the programme): Admission decisions are made by the Admissions Committee. The committee considers applicants' academic and employment records, three letters of recommendation from professors or employers, and a statement of purpose addressing the applicant’s background and interest in public policy. A résumé and transcripts for all college coursework are also required. While there are no prescribed course prerequisites, students entering the program are expected to have completed coursework in three areas: mathematics and statistics, economics, and American government. Many students find it useful to take a review course in college algebra, calculus, and statistics the summer before entering the program. Most students are admitted to the full-time program, which they are generally expected to complete in two years of full-time study.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Graduate entry terms are summer and fall; each graduate program sets its own application deadline.

Graduate application fees: $65 for U.S. graduate applicants and $90 for international graduate applicants; MBA (and dual programs with MBA) $200; MPA $125. Each graduate program sets its own application deadline. Fee waivers are available only to U.S. citizens/permanent residents applying for a first graduate degree (not MBA or MPA).

Apply through the official page: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/admissions/apply

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