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A Guide for Graduate Students

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Students pursuing the one-year Master of Public Affairs degree are required to complete eight courses. This includes five required core courses (institutions and policymaking, economics and public policy, public budgeting and management, statistics, and policy analysis) and three electives in an area of specialization. Electives are taken from the Center's seminars plus other methodology, institutions, and policymaking courses offered at Brown (see course lists shown for the MPP).

The table below shows the course sequencing for the Masters of Public Affairs program. In the fall, students take basic core courses on institutions, statistics, budgeting and management, and an elective, while in the spring, they take courses on economics and public policy and policy analysis plus two electives in their area of interest. There is no internship or research workshop required for the MPA.