Professiona degree programs in Pubic Administration and Internationa Reations Midcareer options In Pubic Administration via Executive Education Maxwe Schoo The Difference Is Rea n A professionay oriented curricuum, deivered by seasoned, fu-time facuty members, in sma casses, with friendy, persona attention n Research and project oppor tun i ties, in an interdiscipinary setting that incudes the socia sciences and eight research institutes n A egendariy oya and active aumni network n A from America s #1 graduate program in pubic affairs* * U.S.News & Word Report, America s Best Graduate Schoos, 2009 Edition
The Difference Is Practica For more than 80 years, the Maxwe Schoo of Syracuse University has been a eader in pubic and internationa affairs, beginning with America s first pubic administration program, created in 1924. Today, the 12-month Master of Pubic Administration program enjoys a stear reputation, offering highy regarded speciaizations in internationa and nationa security, pubic and nonprofit management, environmenta poicy and administration, internationa deveopment and administration, government finance, socia poicy, and technoogy management. The 16-month M.A. in Internationa Reations combines academic coursework with professiona training seminars, as we as overseas study and internship opportunities. In addition, Maxwe s Executive Education division offers master s degree programs in both pubic administration and internationa reations, in a fexibe form suited to students with significant amounts of professiona experience. Maxwe s reputation is buit upon the workpace reputation of its aumni, who share an uncanny capacity to comprehend and address chaenges that fa outside the norma bounds of their job descriptions. For this they are greaty desired by empoyers in government, in nonand quasi-governmenta organizations, in foreign service, in nonprofits, in higher education, and in finance and other private-business sectors. Ask anyone: In the fied, the Maxwe reputation is tops. Or ask U.S.News & Word Report: Every edition of the magazine s triennia ranking of top graduate schoos has named Maxwe America s number-one pubic affairs program. More Than Mutidiscipinary Max we is the ony major schoo of pubic and internationa affairs that paces professiona train ing in the context of the socia sciences. The professiona degree programs fourish aongside de part ments of history, an thro po ogy, socioogy, poi t i ca science, economics, and geography. Many P.A. and I.R. students take advantage of the socia sciences by seecting courses there, some even pursuing a dua degree. Sti more get invoved in Maxwe s mutidiscipinary research centers: n the Center for Poicy Research (focusing on pubic poicy issues such as Socia Security and education financing), n the Danie Patrick Moynihan Institute of Goba Affairs, n the Campbe Pubic Affairs Institute (studying citizenship and democratic process), n the Institute for Nationa Security and Counterterrorism (co-hosted with Syracuse s Coege of Law), n the Center for Environmenta Poicy and Administration, n the Program for the Advancement of Research on Confict and Coaboration, n the Center for Technoogy and Information Poicy, and n the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Poitics, and the Media (co-hosted with SU s Coege of Law and Newhouse Schoo of Pubic Communications).
A Maxwe students benefit from the Schoo s unique structure and the anaytica breadth it creates. Students master the rigors of poi cy anaysis and decision-making, integrating theoretica and practica knowedge into a truy broad understanding of the word of pubic af fairs, both domestic and internationa. Maxwe s professiona-degree programs embody a tradition in which the socia sciences serve as underying pubic phiosophy, concerned with the whoe of our wordy activities. And they carry with them an underying commitment to civic responsibiity and participation that has anchored Maxwe since its founding. Maxwe Facuty 30 Soe or dua appointments in Pubic Administration 49 Teaching in Internationa Reations * 155 Maxwe Schoo facuty members (a programs). Among them: 7 Guggenheim feows 6 American Counci of Learned Societies feows 14 Fubright research feows 10 Nationa Endowment for the Humanities feows 8 Nationa Academy of Pubic Administration feows 1 MacArthur feow * As a mutidiscipinary program, Internationa Reations draws from facuty throughout the Schoo. Additionay, 28 adjunct facuty members teach in Washington, D.C., and other off-campus ocations. Sma, Wecoming, Persona In the cassroom and in the institutes, professiona program students benefit from direct contact with fu-time facuty members a of them accompished teachers, most of them aso infuentia researchers and poicy advisors in their fieds. Their dedication and accessibiity is part of the Schoo s arger cuture of camaraderie and coegiaity. Students des cribe it as warmth. A ack of pretension. A sense that we are a part of the same community. It begins with the famousy supportive staff and extends to cassmates and aumni. Reationships, forged in the intensity of a concentrated caendar and nurtured in common academic adventures, wi ast a ifetime. The Aumni Famiy Maxwe s aumni are widey known not ony for their professiona contributions, but aso for their fierce oyaty to one another and to the Schoo. There are neary 6,000 aumni of Max we s professiona programs. Some 1,200 work in Washington, D.C.; another 600 in New York City; and hundreds more in cities across the United States. Scores of others hod eadership positions in nations around the word. Maxwe s Office of Career Deveopment and Aumni Reations heps coordinate active aumni organizations in more than a dozen U.S. ocations. Aumni return eagery and often to campus, taking an active roe in sharing their ife experiences, offering practica tips, and heping today s students aunch their careers.
Joint Degree Opportunities These forma, integrated joint degree programs have been created for professiona program students. Separate admission to each haf of these programs is required. M.P.A./M.A.-I.R. M.P.A./J.D. (offered with the SU Coege of Law) M.A.-I.R./J.D. (offered with the SU Coege of Law) M.A.-I.R./M.A.-Econ. M.A.-I.R./M.S.-Pubic Reations (Pubic Dipomacy) In addition, students may pursue concurrent degrees in a professiona degree program and one of the Schoo s socia-science departments (or another Syracuse University department). And, in Executive Education, students may pursue a coordinated program in pubic administration and internationa reations, bearing two degrees and requiring fewer credits than if pursued separatey. Certificate PROGRAMS These certificates recognize subject speciaization by students aready pursuing a arger graduate degree. They are based at Maxwe and are popuar with professiona-degree students. n Confict Resoution n Civi Society Organizations n Econometrics n E-Government Management and Leadership n Heath Services Management and Poicy n Information, Technoogy Poicy, and Management n Post-Confict Reconstruction n Security Studies n South Asian Studies n Latin American and Caribbean Studies n Midde Eastern Affairs Two other certificates popuar with professiona-program students are Lega Studies (based at Syracuse University s Coege of Law) and Environ menta Decision Making (at the SUNY Coege of Environmenta Science and Forestry). The Executive Education Program offers 12-credit certificates in Pubic Administration, Leadership of Internationa and Non-Governmenta Organizations, E-Government Management and Leadership, Post-Confict Reconstruction, Confict Resoution, and Heath Services Management and Poicy. Unike those above, these six certificates may be pursued independent of any other degree program. See Executive Education for more detai.
Internationa Reations 16-month timeframe Integrated goba internship Unique exchange programs Professionay oriented curricuum The Master of Arts in INTER NATIona Reations is a professiona degree program that combines rigorous, mutidiscipinary academic coursework with rea-word skis to give graduates an edge in the goba job market. The 40-credit curricuum requires competion of two career tracks, regionspecific coursework, second-anguage proficiency, and a professiona capstone experience. A fexibe 30-credit option is avaiabe for midcareer professionas. The IR Program benefits from Maxwe s 155 facuty members spanning six socia science discipines as we as from practitioner schoars in Syracuse, Washington, and abroad. MA-IR Curricuum 40 credits 4 core/signature courses 2 career tracks, tota of 5 courses 2 regiona courses 3 eectives 1 goba internship 1 capstone experience IR Career Tracks Goba Markets Goba Deveopment Foreign Poicy Negotiation and Confict Resoution Goba Security Transnationa Organi zations and Leadership Empoyment by Sector 2010 Entering Cass Profie Cass size: 95 students Median age: 25 Experience: two-thirds have over 2 years of professiona experience Internationa: 35% U.S. Minority: 21% 43% Nonprofit/ ngo 21% Private 20% Government 9% Internationa government 8% Further education Median GPA: 3.50 Median GRE-V: 540 Median GRE-Q: 620 Median GRE-W: 4.5
Internationa Reations continued Washington Geneva Berin London Strasbourg Istanbu Beirut Herziya Cairo Accra Mysore Singapore Niigata Tokyo Seou Beijing Goba Programs The IR Program maintains internship and academic programs as we as exchange opportunities a over the word. One hundred percent of MA-IR students compete an internship as part of this program. Santiago Capetown Recent Interns Ayse Ferdag Tekin, MA-IR 10 From Nevsehir, Turkey Intern, Word Trade Organization, Geneva Geneva Summer Practicum, Summer 2010 Recent Graduates Matthew Cayton, MA-IR 09 From Jackson, TN Operations Officer, Internationa Organization on Migration Sri Lanka Jeffrey Barron, MA-IR/MA-Econ 11 From Erie, Pennsyvania, USA Intern, US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC DC Summer Practicum Lamis Seiman, MA-IR 09 From Beirut, Lebanon Monitoring and Evauation Speciaist at Office of Transition Initiatives, USAID Beirut, Lebanon Kristina Naranjo-Rivera, MA-IR/MPA 11 From New York, NY Intern, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Kampaa, Uganda Graduate Internships in Uganda Summer Program Mikos Bodnar, MA-IR 10 From Northridge, Caifornia, USA Intern, NATO, Brusses, Begium Goba Europe Program Andrew Jesmain, MA-IR 09 From Manius, NY Senior Consutant, Booz Aen Hamiton, Mission Performance & Poicy Anaytics Team Washington, DC Patricia Ongpin, MA-IR 09 From Cagary, Canada CRIS Technica Officer, Country Monitoring Systems, UNAIDS Geneva, Switzerand Sokkhoeurn An, MA-IR 10 From Phnom Penh, Cambodia Intern, United Nations Economic & Socia Counci, New York, NY New York Summer Practicum Mohammad Musa Mahmodi, MA-IR/ EMPA 09 From Kabu, Afghanistan Executive Director, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission Kabu, Afghanistan
Pubic Administration 40-credit, caendar-year timeframe (Juy-June) Generaist program Combining domestic and internationa dimensions of anaysis and management Rich in tradition, yet cutting edge courses and research Maxwe s Master of Pubic Administration program, the odest continuousy operating program of its kind, has been a consistent eader among America s more than 250 graduate programs in pubic affairs. Underying this high regard the M.P.A. is consistenty ranked America s best by U.S.News & Word Report is Maxwe s unique strength: providing a professiona education in the academic context of the socia sciences. The program prepares individuas for careers as poicy anaysts and administrators in the pubic sector. The 40-credit, 12-month intensive program is baanced in pubic poicy anaysis and management. Given the fu-year nature of the program, a fu summer internship is not required. However, a students work with pubic agencies/organizations in conjunction with their courses. Academic-year internship options are avaiabe for those students seeking this more in-depth exposure to the professiona pubic sector. Maxwe s M.P.A. is known as a generaist program, honoring theory but aways with an eye toward practice. The skis earned in the core courses aow our graduates to be successfu in various pubic service careers. The generaist nature of the instruction provides our aumni maximum fexibiity as their careers progress. They easiy take advantage of opportunities in a sectors, working on the anaysis and management of various pubic issues. The M.P.A. program at Maxwe consistenty tops U.S.News & Word Report s graduate schoo rankings. Core-Course Emphases (25 CREDITS) Citizenship and pubic affairs Pubic and nonprofit organizations Appied pubic management principes Quantitative poicy anaysis and decision making (economic, statistica, and financia) Leadership and ethics Poicy formuation and programmatic design AREAS of Study* (15 CREDITS) Pubic and non-profit management State and oca government financia management and anaysis Internationa and deveopment administration Internationa and nationa security poicy Socia poicy (heath, education, socia wefare, aging) Environmenta poicy and administration Technoogy and information management * There is great fexibiity beyond the core courses and most students bend two Program of Study areas to best meet their needs and interests.
Pubic Administration continued Empoyment by Sector 25% Federa Government 20% Reated Private Sector 18% State/Loca government 15% Nonprofit management 12% Internationa NGOs 5% Other Graduate/ Professiona Degree 5% Law Firm MAXWELL s MPA: a comprehensive, we-baanced core The abiity to design, impement and effectivey manage programs to remedy poicy and management issues. Pubic Management Poicy Anaysis Pubic Context Using economic, statistica and financia anaysis to effectivey anayze and determine soutions to poicy and management chaenges. Successfuy negotiating the economic, socia, cutura, historic and poitica nuances of the pubic sector to ensure successfu progress toward poicy and management goas. Notes About Graduate Empoyment Federa Government graduates serve in the U.S. or, among internationa students, in their home countries State/Loca Government graduates are in city management, community and economic deveopment, state-eve budget offices, and housing and urban panning positions Most private-sector empoyees are in government branches of consuting companies, municipafinance and bond-rating agencies, and offices of government affairs. Typica Entering Cass Profie Cass size: 120 students Median Age: 26-27 Experience: 80% have over 2 years of professiona experience Internationa: 20-25% U.S. students of coor: 20-30% Retention to graduation: Over 99% Since most compete their degree in one year, the in-residence popuation is about 150. R e c e n t G r a d u a t e s Coin Seae, MPA 07 Management Anayst Cark County Department of Famiy Services Las Vegas, NV Maaya Sundaram, MPA 07 Swaziand Country Anayst Cinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative Center for Strategic HIV/AIDS Operations Research Swaziand Fernando Yitzack Pavon, MPA 08 Operations Anayst Socia Sector Inter-American Deveopment Bank Tegucigapa, Honduras Ashey Vokmar, MPA 08 Poicy Anayst Department of Homeand Security Washington, DC
Executive Education (Midcareer Options in P.A. and I.R.) * Quaified midcareer students may earn the M.A.-I.R./E.M.P.A. dua degree by com peting an additiona 18 credits in internationa reations. THE EXECUTIVE MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Maxwe s Executive M.P.A., enhances the management and poicy-anaytic expertise of upper- and midde-eve executives representing pubic, private, and nonprofit organizations from around the word. The E.M.P.A. provides a fexibe, 30-credit curricuum to assist students in identifying and fiing current gaps in their skis and knowedge; and prepares midcareer students to face the future management and poicy chaenges they encounter in their chosen Caendar-year master s and semester-ong certificate programs Fexibe program of study Unique mix of eaders careers. There are three required courses: a seminar in organizationa eadership, a course on the fundamentas of poicy anaysis, and a capstone project. Maxwe aso offers the Executive Master of Internationa Reations degree, for midcareer professionas ooking to buid on their body of experience in internationa reations. This 30- credit program draws on the Schoo s pubic administration and internationa reations programs, and features core courses in comparative foreign poicy anaysis or governance and goba civi society; eadership, management, and strategy in goba affairs; and a capstone workshop in executive internationa reations. Students may engage in interdiscipinary studies and compete speciaized certificates in fieds such as confict resoution, heath services management, and information management. Many students earn a second degree concurrenty, incuding the coordinated, dua degree in P.A. and I.R.* Executive Education degrees may be competed in one caendar year or part-time, according to the schedue of the student. Appication is open to executives with a minimum of seven years of manageria experience. R e c e n t G r a d u a t e s McBride Peter Nkhaamba, EMPA 10 Visiting Senior Feow Ansari Africa Program Atantic Counci of the United States Robert Myers III, EMPA 10 Director, Internationa Programs Burton Batt Institute Syracuse University Shamsiyya Mustafayeva, EMPA 09 Administrator and Academic Advisor Azerbaijan Dipomatic Academy Marie-Caude Francoeur, EMPA 08 Assistant Deputy Minister, Poicy, Francophonie and Mutiatera Affairs Ministry of Internationa Reations Government of Quebec, Canada Praveen Prakash EMPA 09 Vice Chairman & Managing Director Andhra Pradesh Minera Deveopment Corporation Limited Yuka Ohga, EMPA 10 Assistant Director, North-East Asia Division Trade Poicy Bureau Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry Government of Japan
Executive Education continued 2009 Entering Cass Profie Cass size: 114 students Average age: 40 Average professiona experience: 15 years Internationa: 42% Certificate programs Maxwe offers 12-credit certificates in the foowing fieds as an aternative to a fu master s degree: Pubic Administration. One-semester graduate program for midcareer managers seeking to hone eadership skis or deveop new expertise. Leadership of Internationa and Non-Government Organizations. Prepares eaders for work in the dynamic environment of NGOs wordwide. It can be competed in one semester. Heath Services Management. For midcareer professionas who require a poicy background to operate effectivey in the heath-care sector. Requires coursework in fa and spring semesters and a year to compete. Confict Resoution. Deveops understanding of approaches and new skis in confict resoution. Speciaization incudes internationa, environmenta, socia movements, and appied confict resoution. May be competed in one semester. E-Government Management and Leadership. Provides an understanding in the technoogies and technica-design oversight of e-government appications. Post-Confict Reconstruction. Provides an initia grounding in this fied and some of the anaytica toos required for pubic service careers in the internationa arena. Students who earn a 12-credit certificate may ater appy those credits toward an E.M.P.A. degree. Visiting SCHOLAR Program n Non-degree study program for highy quaified pubicand private-sector officias from the U.S. and abroad n Informa, individuay taiored programs of study and research n Courses avaiabe for audit in a variety of subjects n Drawing fuy on the interdiscipinary character of Maxwe
For more information about the Maxwe Schoo or any of its programs: n visit www.maxwe.syr.edu or n e-mai or phone any of the departments beow Department of Pubic Administration 215 Eggers Ha / Syracuse, NY 13244 Te: 315.443.4000 / Fax: 315.443.9712 jmdaton@maxwe.syr.edu www.maxwe.syr.edu/pa Internationa Reations Program 225 Eggers Ha / Syracuse, NY 13244 Te: 315.443.2306 / Fax: 315.443.9204 irgradir@maxwe.syr.edu www.maxwe.syr.edu/ir Executive Education Programs 219 Maxwe Ha / Syracuse, NY 13244 Te: 315.443.3759 / Fax: 315.443.5330 maxexed@maxwe.syr.edu www.maxwe.syr.edu/exed Appy onine at https://appy.embark.com/grad/syracuse. Appy by February 1 for admission to Pubic Administration (Juy start), Internationa Reations (August start), or fa sessions of Executive Education; September 1 for spring-semester Executive Education sessions. www.maxwe.syr.edu