Oregon State University (OSU) offers the Master of Public Policy (MPP) to graduate students interested in social policy, environmental policy, international policy, and rural policy. The program is offered by faculty in the Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Economics, Political Science and Sociology. MPP students can also design programs of study with faculty in such colleges as Education, Forestry, Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.
OSU is home to world class scientists working on many issues significant to 21st century citizens. As populations continue to become more connected and interdependent, these issues promise to affect us more broadly, more quickly, and with more impact than ever before. New forms of governance and problem solving are being tested and studied at OSU to address these issues. As an interdisciplinary program, the MPP is uniquely positioned to integrate groundbreaking science into emerging policies, practices and understandings of the world that will impact and influence local, regional and international policy decisions.
The MPP Program accepts students with backgrounds in related academic disciplines. Graduates of the MPP Program have found policy analyst, research and program manager positions in federal, state and local government as well as in the nonprofit sector.
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