MPA Courses

The Health Care Policy specialization is designed for those who want to make a difference in health and healthcare delivery systems. You’ll get a firsthand understanding of how to analyze, implement, and evaluate responsive health policies at the local, state, and national levels. You’ll also be introduced to the political, economic and social factors affecting health care delivery to diverse populations, including the disadvantaged and vulnerable. These skills can be applied to government health care agencies, private and public hospitals, health advocacy groups, or insurance companies. (9 credits + 6 credits of Free Electives)

There are some 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. today, including 30,000 in New York City. The Nonprofit Management specialization will help you think like a nonprofit leader, focusing on fundraising, decision-making, emergency preparedness, and ethics and philanthropy. This specialization prepares students for roles as nonprofit board members, managers, executive directors, or chief financial officers. (9 credits + 6 credits of Free Electives)

The concentration in policy analysis and evaluation is designed for students interested in developing analytic skills that can be applied across a broad array of policy topics and arenas. Students will learn about policy development and implementation from both theoretical and practical perspectives, at all levels of government and policymaking. The specialization includes two required courses, Policy Analysis and Economics of the Public Sector and Public Finance, and two electives drawn from a wide range of policy courses. (9 credits + 6 credits of Free Electives)

Explore new ways of workforce and asset administration with the Public Management specialization. It prepares students by focusing on human and capital resource issues, changing venues of public management, and sound practices of institutional representation. Students who pursue this specialization are often nominated as finalists to competitive fellowship programs like the New York State Public Management Institute and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. (9 credits + 6 credits of Free Electives)

The Social Justice Specialization helps students develop the academic and applied skills to analyze structures and systems driving inequality, injustices, and exclusion, and to develop policies and strategies to create and sustain a just and equitable society. These strategies include, among others, research and analysis, community organizing, public education, and advocacy. This specialization acknowledges the persistent and cumulative effects of past injustices and seeks to create practitioners, experts, and leaders who will promote structural changes to achieve greater equity, human rights, and democratic participation. (9 credits + 6 credits of Free Electives)

This specialization evaluates sustainability in urban centers from a social, economic, and environmental perspective. Students learn how cities can improve and sustain housing, land use, business activity, and infrastructure. Program graduates often pursue roles with community organizations, nonprofit advocacy groups, and government sustainability agencies. (9 credits + 6 credits of Free Electives)

The Climate Change Specialization equips students to analyze the complex interplay of environmental, social-political, economic, and technological factors driving climate change and its far-reaching impacts. Students will gain skills to develop, analyze, and evaluate actions and policies meant to prepare society for the consequences of climate change. Students will emerge well-prepared to contribute meaningfully to public discourse and policymaking in the pursuit of more sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities and populations. (9 credits + 6 credits of Free Electives)