Doctor's degree Public Policy Analysis - Pardee Rand Graduate School of Policy Studies

Doctor's degree Public Policy Analysis from Pardee Rand Graduate School of Policy Studies is a Campus Ph.D Public Administration degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. The Curriculum and the Mission of the School The Pardee RAND Graduate School aspires to be the world\\\'s leading Ph.D. program in policy analysis . Our goals are: To produce Ph.D. graduates whose dissertations make important intellectual contributions to practical issues and whose careers distinguish them as powerful intellectual influences on public life. In conjunction with RAND, to develop new lines of teaching and research on some of the world\\\'s most difficult challenges in security, poverty, health and development. For the profession as a whole, to rethink what public policy means in a time when we no longer automatically turn to government to solve all problems but increasingly rely on partnerships between government, business, and civil society. The curriculum serves these goals, with a particular vision. PRGS should be a place where some of the world\\\'s most able graduate students come to work on some of the world\\\'s hardest problems, with the rigor, interdisciplinarity, and flair that characterize RAND. And so the PRGS curriculum tries to provide the best analytical tools from many disciplines, practice in applying them to real problems, and a creative, sometimes experimental approach that encourages new ways of thinking and doing. Great courses are only part of a PRGS education. PRGS students also carry out policy research part-time with RAND mentors, in what we call \\\"on-the-job training\\\" or OJT. Working in interdisciplinary teams with clients in the public , private, and non-profit sectors, students develop skills and sophistication that couldn\\\'t be conveyed in a classroom. The late Carl Builder likened PRGS to a great arts academy. He pointed out that students leave PRGS with a remarkable portfolio of accomplishments, which range from proposals to briefings, from technical reports to policy memoranda, from teaching notes to reports on field work, and of course the Ph.D. dissertation. In creating this portfolio, courses and OJT combine in what we think is a unique experience in higher education. View more details on Pardee RAND Graduate School . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Public Administration courses.