Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

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The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Motto: Advancing Citizenship, Scholarship, and Leadership around the world.
Established: October 3, 1924
Type: Private
Dean: Mitchel B. Wallerstein
Postgraduates: 800
Location: Syracuse, NY, USA
Website: www.maxwell.syr.edu

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, as a graduate school at Syracuse University, offers degrees in the social sciences and public and international affairs (at the master and Ph.D. levels). According to U.S. News & World Report, the Maxwell School is the leading public policy school offering master degrees in Public Affairs in the United States. The Maxwell School has been consistently ranked as the top graduate program for public affairs in the country by U.S. News and World Report[1], including the most recent rankings in 2008[2]. It is also listed as one of the top ten professional schools for international relations by Foreign Policy magazine[3].

The School also offers dual professional degrees between its public administration and international relations programs, the Syracuse University College of Law, the Newhouse School of Public Communications, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

The school was mentioned several times on the popular and critically acclaimed television show, The West Wing.

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Maxwell School (North Face).
Maxwell School (North Face).

The Maxwell School is best known for its Public Administration and International Relations programs, and is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). It is named for George Holmes Maxwell, a Boston patent attorney who donated $500,000 to the university in 1924.

Dedicated on October 3, 1924, the Maxwell School was the first school to offer a graduate professional degree in public administration and the first to bring together the social sciences for public administration education. Its Master of Public Administration (MPA) program is the oldest continuously operating University-based program in the country [4].

The school boasts a strong tradition of interdisciplinary research, and offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, political science, public administration, social science, and sociology. Maxwell is the only school among the 50 in the U.S. News and World Report survey that ranks in the top ten of all nine specialty areas: City Management, Environmental Policy & Management, Health Policy & Management, Information & Technology Management, Nonprofit Management, Public Finance & Budgeting, Public Management/Administration, Public Policy Analysis, and Social Policy.

Since 1995, when U.S. News began ranking schools of public affairs, the Maxwell School has been first among its peers. [5]


[edit] Alumni

U.S. government

Business

Academia

[edit] Maxwell School institutes and centers

  • Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute
  • Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
  • Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT)
  • Center for Environmental Policy & Administration (CEPA)
  • Center for Policy Research (CPR)
  • Center for Technology & Information Policy (CTIP)
  • Environmental Finance Center
  • Program on the Analysis & Resolution of Conflicts (PARC)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Maxwell School of Syracuse University : Headlines and Media
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ International Relations Program Ranking
  4. ^ Maxwell School of Syracuse University
  5. ^ [2]
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William E. Mosher • Paul H. Appleby • Harlan Cleveland • Steven K. Bailey • Alan K. Campbell • Guthrie S. Birkhead • John L. Palmer • Mitchel B. Wallerstein
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