The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies is located within Georgia State University. The school houses the Criminal Justice & Criminology, Economics, Social Work and Public Management and Policy divisions of the second largest school in the state of Georgia.
In 2008, U.S. News and World Reports placed the Andrew Young School 27th among the top 269 schools in public affairs: 5th in public finance and budgeting, 12th in city management/urban policy, 12th in information and technology management, 13th in nonprofit management, 18th in public policy analysis, and 33rd in public management administration.
The school is named after Andrew Young, a civil rights leader from Atlanta that served as mayor of Atlanta, United Nations Ambassador, and was instrumental in bringing the Olympics to the city in 1996.
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