Heinz School

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The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the nation's top-ranked public policy schools and named after the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III.

Contents 1 History 2 Rankings 3 Education 4 Research 5 See Also 6 External links

[edit] History

Richard King Mellon and his wife Constance had long been interested in urban and social issues. In 1965, they sponsored a conference on urban problems, in which they began discussions with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech, (as Carnegie Mellon University was then known) to create a school focused on public affairs. In 1967, Carnegie Mellon President H. Guyford Stever, Richard Cyert, Dean of the then Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and Professors William Cooper and Otto Davis met and formed a university-wide committee to discuss creating a school that would train leaders to address complex problems in American urban communities. Davis was asked to draft a proposal to create such a school.

In 1968, William Cooper and Otto Davis presented the final proposal for the School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) to the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The proposal found favor with R. K. Mellon and he became strongly committed to creating such a school. The R. K. Mellon Foundation sent a proposal to President Stever to finance it with an initial grant of $10 million, and on 1 November 1968, President Stever created the School of Urban and Public Affairs.

In 1992, Teresa Heinz (later Teresa Heinz Kerry) donated a large sum of money to the school, which was then renamed in honor of Mrs. Heinz's late husband, Senator H. John Heinz III. Senator Heinz, heir to the H. J. Heinz Company fortune, had been killed when his small private plane crashed a few years before.

The Heinz School is headquartered in Hamburg Hall; the building was named Hamburg long before it became home of the Heinz School. The Heinz School also has a branch campus in Adelaide, Australia.

The Heinz School focuses on the application of quantitative analysis, statistics, economics, operations research, decision science, and information technology to tackle public sector problems in a practical manner. The faculty of the Heinz School is often considered the best in the country in such application.

[edit] Rankings

In the most recent US News and World Report Graduate School rankings, the Heinz School was ranked 8th overall among schools of public affairs. Of the 253 schools of public affairs across the nation that were surveyed, the Heinz School ranked:

• 1st in Information and Technology Management;
• 1st in Criminal Justice Policy and Management;
• 4th in Public Policy Analysis;
• 7th in Environmental Policy and Management;
• 7th in Health Policy and Management.

The school also ranked well in City Management and Urban Policy (14th), Public Finance and Budgeting (16th), Public Management and Administration (16th), and Social Policy (15th).

[edit] Education

Presently, the Heinz School has an international reputation for excellence in its educational programs:

Full-Time Master Programs

• Public Policy and Management
• Information Systems Management
• Health Care Policy and Management
• Information Security Policy and Management
• Arts Management
• Entertainment Industry Management

Mid-Career Master Programs

• Public Management
• Medical Management
• Information Technology

The Heinz School also offers a PhD in Public Policy and Management, several joint degrees with the Tepper School of Business and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as executive education programs.

The hallmarks of every Heinz School education is the skills-based curriculum, the integration of technology, and the required final project. This final project is done instead of a traditional thesis and allows the students to apply their problem solving skills to a real client's problem.

[edit] Research

The Heinz School maintains an international reputation of excellence in the fields of Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Health policy analysis, Information Systems and Technology, Management Science, policy analysis, and Social Welfare Policy. The Heinz School is also affiliated with several research centers:

• Center for Arts Management and Technology
• Arts and Cultural Observatory
• Center for Behavioral Decision Research
• Center for Economic Development
• Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society
• Institute for Social Innovation
• National Consortium on Violence Research
• Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society
• Software Industry Center
• Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems
• CyLab

Finally the Heinz School carries on the university tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration by working with departments throughout Carnegie Mellon.

[edit] See Also

Heinz School Australia

[edit] External links

• Heinz School official website

Carnegie Mellon University
Academic Units	Carnegie Institute of Technology (College of Engineering) • College of Fine Arts • College of Humanities and Social Sciences • Heinz School of Public Policy and Management • Mellon College of Science • School of Computer Science • Tepper School of Business