Field Description
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy offers students the opportunity to study public policy and program management from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Students gain an understanding of the political processes through which issues, problems, and policies are formulated; the economic basis for government action in a market economy; and the comparative and historical contexts of governmental programs. Students study public budgets, finance, and regulatory processes, as well as the behavior of both public and private organizations and their management. Students also gain competence in the qualitative and quantitative methods needed to analyze programs and policies, and develop sensitivity to the moral and ethical dimensions of policy issues.
M.P.A. Program The two-year Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) program consists of a minimum of 65.5 credits; students typically take a full load of coursework for four semesters. The M.P.A. program offers a structured curriculum that includes courses in data analytics, managing organizations, politics and policy, applied microeconomics, global citizenship, policy communication, and tools for public administration. Each M.P.A. student also takes concentration courses based on the student's specific area of interest. Elective courses and research opportunities may be taken through the program in relevant departments or colleges at the university. Students have seven areas they may concentrate their studies in:
- Environmental and Sustainability Policy
- Economic Policy
- Data Science
- International Policy and Management
- Public and Non-Profit Management
- Science and Technology Policy
- Social Policy: Health, Education, and Inequality
M.P.A. students are expected to engage in public affairs work related to their respective areas of concentration during the summer between their first and second years of study. As a culmination of studies in the M.P.A. program, all students are required to develop and complete a professional writing project. This requirement may be fulfilled by writing a research thesis, a professional report based on work done during the summer internship, or by completing the MPA Capstone.
Field Manual
Faculty
N'Dri Assie-Lumumba
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management
- Research Interests: international development
Rosemary Jane Avery
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public policy
Sandra Lynn Babcock
- Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management
Christopher Brendan Barrett
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; science and technology policy; social policy
Arnab Basu
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
Kaushik Basu
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; international policy and management
Nancy Brooks
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: finance and fiscal policy
Colleen Marie Carey
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
Lourdes S. Casanova
- Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
- Concentrations: Public Administration: environmental and sustainability policy
John H Cawley
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: health economics, economics of risky health behaviors, public policy
Ho Yan (Nancy) Chau
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public affairs
Ralph Dean Christy
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public affairs
Mark Alexander Constas
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
Glen W.S. Dowell
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public affairs
Parfait M Eloundou-Enyegue
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: international development; social policy
Maria Fitzpatrick
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: economics of education, public finance, labor economics
Gustavo A. Flores-Macias
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: political and economic development
H. Oliver Gao
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public affairs
Raymond Richard Geddes
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: public and nonprofit management
- Research Interests: public affairs
Miguel I. Gomez
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
Salah Hassan
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management
- Research Interests: African and African American art and folklore
George Alan Hay
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management; public and nonprofit management
- Research Interests: antitrust law and competition policy
Thomas A Hirschl
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: social stratification; research methods and statistics; state and local demography
Robert C. Hockett
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
John Frederick Hoddinott
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
Steven Jackson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
George Hersch Jakubson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: labor economics
Robert Alan Jarrow
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
- Research Interests: finance; mathematical economics; game theory; applied mathematics; microeconomic theory
David R Just
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public affairs
Sanjiv (Ravi) Kanbur
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management
- Research Interests: public economics; development economics
Harry Charles Katz
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history
Donald S Kenkel
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: economics of disease prevention and health promotion policies; cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of health
Neema Kudva
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public affairs
Sarosh C Kuruvilla
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management
- Research Interests: human rights and social justice; international development
Pauline Leung
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
- Research Interests: labor economics
Shanjun Li
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy
John R. Mathiason
- Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management
Alan D. Mathios
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: consumer protection; antitrust law and economics; public utility regulation; federal and state regulation
Douglas L. Miller
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
- Research Interests: applied econometrics, labor, public, health, development
Stephen J. Morreale
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: environmental and sustainability policy
Kelly A. Musick
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
Muna Baron Ndulo
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: international policy and management
- Research Interests: governance and democratization; human rights; peace keeping and legal aspects of foreign investments
Sean M. Nicholson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: economics of education; public finance; labor economics
Steven A. Osofsky
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: environmental and sustainability policy
Zhuan Pei
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: labor economics; applied micro-econometrics; public policy
Karl Andrew Pillemer
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
Prabhu L. Pingali
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
Peter M. Rich
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
Bradley J. Rickard
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; international policy and management
Kenneth M. Roberts
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
Amanda Rodewald
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: environmental and sustainability policy
Nicholas James Sanders
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; social policy: health, education, and inequality
Stephan J. Schmidt
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public affairs
John W. Sipple
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: public and nonprofit management
- Research Interests: public affairs
Laura Tach
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
Sharon Tennyson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy
- Research Interests: consumer protection, household finance, law and economics, insurance
John Tobin
- Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management
Pamela S. Tolbert
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: public and nonprofit management
- Research Interests: organizational behavior
Michael Andrew Tomlan
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: environmental and sustainability policy; public and nonprofit management
- Research Interests: building-conservation technology; survey and documentation methods for preservation; preservation economics and finance; urban history
Maureen Waller
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: social policy: health, education, and inequality
Mildred Elaine Warner
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: public policy
Steven A Wolf
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: environmental and sustainability policy
- Research Interests: public affairs
Wendy W. Wolford
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Administration: economic policy; environmental and sustainability policy; international policy and management; public and nonprofit management; social policy: health, education, and inequality
- Research Interests: