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pam_phd@cornell.edu
122 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401
607 255-7772

Applying:

2009-10 Tuition: Research degree: $20,800; professional degree: $24,700

Application deadlines:
Fall, Ph.D.: Jan. 15, M.H.A.: April 15; no spring admission

Requirements summary:

  • all Graduate School Requirements, including the TOEFL Exam for Non-Native English Applicants
  • two recommendations
  • Ph.D.--GRE general test
  • M.H.A.--GRE general test or GMAT

Degrees, Subjects & Concentrations:

Subjects: Policy Analysis and Management (Ph.D.), Health Administration (M.H.A., M.H.A./M.B.A. dual degree)

Major concentrations: consumer policy; family/social welfare policy; health administration; health management and policy

Degrees: Ph.D., M.H.A., M.H.A./M.B.A. dual degree

Course descriptions and rosters:

Description:

The Ph.D. program combines a focus on the substantive policy areas of health, consumer, and family/social welfare with graduate-level training in a theoretical or disciplinary area, analytical or empirical methods, and multiple disciplinary approaches. The Ph.D. degree is designed to prepare students for faculty positions in public policy, public health, and other academic positions. It also equips students with research and evaluation skills useful for careers in private consulting, government, or the non-profit sector.

For more information, check the Department Web site.

Doctoral program.
Doctoral degree candidates in PAM must choose one of the Department's four areas of concentration as a major: (a) evaluation, (b) family/social welfare policy, (c) health management and policy, or (d) consumer policy. They are also required to choose two minor fields.

PAM doctoral students can elect a minor from any of PAM's four areas of concentration, or from another area outside the department. External minors usually represent disciplinary emphases such as psychology, sociology, or economics; but might also include such fields as statistics, development sociology, human development, labor economics, public economics, industrial organization, education, etc. Minor fields also frequently reflect students' prior work or academic experience.

Professional master's degree program.
The Master of Health Administration program (Sloan Program) is a prescribed two-year program designed to prepare individuals for administrative careers in health care settings such as hospitals, management consulting firms, private industry, government agencies, health care delivery systems, long-term care, and mental health and social welfare agencies. Students complete requirements in health services administration and selected electives in functional areas such as finance, marketing, information systems, and human resource management.

M.H.A./M.B.A. dual degree program
The Master in Health Administration/Master in Business Administration program is offered in conjunction with the Sloan Program in Health Administration and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. This dual degree provides students interested in health management and desiring in-depth training in the general field of business administration an opportunity to pursue both an M.H.A. and an M.B.A. simultaneously.

For further information, check the Department Web site

Application:
Applicants for the Ph.D. program must submit scores on the GRE general test. Applicants for the M.H.A. program may submit scores for either the GRE general test or the GMAT.

Faculty:

  • Josephine Allen -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: social policy; administration and planning in human services; comparative social welfare; women and development

  • Rosemary Avery -- Concentrations: consumer policy; family/social welfare policy; Research interests: family policy and decision making

  • Roger Battistella -- Research interests: organization; financing and management of health services delivery systems; international health and social policy

  • Richard Burkhauser -- Research interests: economics of aging; Social Security policy; labor market policies

  • John Cawley -- Concentrations: consumer policy; health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health management and policy

  • Rachel Dunifon -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; health management and policy; Research interests: family and social welfare policy and management; health policy and management

  • Ronald Ehrenberg -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: evaluation methods and economics of social programs; economics of education

  • R. Richard Geddes -- Concentrations: consumer policy; Research interests: regulation and corporate governance; women?s property rights; postal services; antitrust policy

  • Jennifer Gerner -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; health management and policy; Research interests: welfare economics and public policy; economics of the household; consumers and the market; consumer policy

  • Jennifer Glass -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; health management and policy; Research interests: work and family issues; gender stratification; fertility; religious conservatism; gender inequality

  • Davydd Greenwood -- Research interests: evaluation

  • Donald Kenkel -- Concentrations: consumer policy; health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health economics and policy; cost-benefit analysis

  • John Kuder -- Concentrations: health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health services economics

  • Daniel Lichter -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: family; demography; poverty and welfare policy; rural studies

  • Michael Lovenheim -- Concentrations: consumer policy; family/social welfare policy; Research interests: public finance; labor economics; economics of education

  • Claudio Lucarelli -- Concentrations: health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health economics; empirical industrial organization; public economics

  • Alan Mathios -- Concentrations: consumer policy; health management and policy; Research interests: consumer protection; antitrust law and economics; public utility regulation; federal and state regulation

  • Jordan Matsudaira -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: labor economics; education; health econometrics

  • John McClain -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: operations research in business- and health-services systems management

  • Sean Nicholson -- Concentrations: health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health economics

  • Liam O'Neill -- Research interests: health administration; program evaluation and planning

  • Emily Owens -- Research interests: economics of crime and criminal justice policy; public finance; economic history

  • Andrea Parrot -- Concentrations: health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health care service; human sexuality; acquaintance rape; sexuality education; infertility

  • Elizabeth Peters -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: economic demography; family economics; labor supply; family policy relating to child care and child support

  • Karl Pillemer -- Research interests: sociology of family, aging, and the life course; social networks; family care provision to disabled elders; family conflict and abuse

  • Patricia Pollak -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: political economy of housing; dynamics of neighborhood change; housing policy

  • Christine Ranney -- Concentrations: consumer policy; family/social welfare policy; Research interests: consumer policy; family and social welfare

  • David Sahn -- Concentrations: consumer policy; family/social welfare policy; Research interests: food and agricultural economics; development economics

  • Sharon Sassler -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: social demography; union formation (marriage, cohabitation); immigrant adaptation; racial and ethnic differentiation; young adult transitions

  • Kosali Simon -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health management and policy; family/social welfare; evaluation

  • Sharon Tennyson -- Concentrations: consumer policy; health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: economics of insurance; regulation; consumer policy

  • William Trochim -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; health management and policy; Research interests: experimental and quasi-experimental research design; computer simulations of novel statistical analytic approaches; investigations of quality, implementation, and conceptualizations of research

  • Maureen Waller -- Concentrations: family/social welfare policy; Research interests: cultural sociology; low income families; qualitative and mixed methods; unmarried fathers; welfare and child support policy

  • William White -- Concentrations: health administration; health management and policy; Research interests: health economics and policy, health services research

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