Overview
The LBJ School offers a Master of Public Affairs program in public policy analysis and administration that prepares graduates to assume leadership positions in government, business, and non-profit organizations. In addition, 16 master's-level dual degree programs blend public affairs study with specialized professions or area studies and are structured so that students can earn the Master of Public Affairs degree and a second degree in less time than it would take to earn them separately." Program offerings include a traditional Master of Public Affairs program, a mid-career master's program, sixteen master's-level programs leading to dual degrees including: Advertising, Asian Studies, Business Administration, Communication Studies, Energy and Earth Resources, Engineering, Journalism, Latin American Studies, Law, Middle Eastern Studies, Public Health, Radio-TV-Film, Social Work, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. The school also offers a Ph. D. in Public Policy. Master's students have the option to specialize in one of seven areas: international affairs; natural resources and the environment; nonprofit and philanthropic studies; public leadership and management; social and economic policy; technology, innovation, and information policy; or urban and state affairs. As of 2011-2012, the LBJ School has graduated 3,375 master's degree students since its first inaugural class of 1972, as well as 43 Ph.D. students since 1996.
In 2008, the LBJ School also introduced a Master of Global Policy Studies that offers a multidisciplinary approach to the complex economic, political, technological, and social issues of the 21st century. Program offerings include specializations in the areas of security, law and diplomacy; international trade and finance; development; global governance and international law; energy, environment, and technology; regional international policy, and customized specializations. Program offerings include nine dual degree programs with the following programs: Asian Studies, Business, Energy and Earth Resources, Journalism, Latin American Studies, Law, Public Health, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
The school also offers a Portfolio Program in Arts and Cultural Management and Entrepreneurship and a Portfolio Program in Nonprofit Studies.
The school also sponsors a variety of non-degree programs for public affairs professionals.
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