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294 Caldwell Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-2602
607 255-8018

Applying:

2009-10 Tuition: $37,750

Application deadlines:
Rolling admissions from Aug. 15 to June 30

Requirements summary:

  • all Graduate School Requirements, including the TOEFL Exam for Non-Native English Applicants
  • GRE general test
  • extensive statement of purpose
  • two letters of recommendation
  • for ESL students only: a TOEFL minimum score of 250 computer-based or 600 paper-based

Degrees, Subjects & Concentrations:

Subjects: Public Administration (M.P.A.)

Major concentrations: 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

Degrees: M.P.A.

Course descriptions and rosters:

Description:

The Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) 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.

For more information, check the department web site.

M.P.A. Program The two-year Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) program consists of sixteen courses; students typically take four courses per term for four semesters. The M.P.A. program offers a basic structure for study, however, each CIPA Fellow (student) works closely with a faculty advisor to design an individualized program based on the student's specific area of interest. Elective courses and research opportunities may be taken through the program in any department or college in the university. Fellows have eight areas they may concentrate their studies in:
  • Environmental Policy
  • Finance and Fiscal Policy
  • Government, Politics, and Policy Studies
  • Human Rights and Social Justice
  • International Development Studies
  • Public and Non-Profit Management
  • Science and Technology Policy
  • Social Policy
CIPA Fellows 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 thesis. Typically, the thesis grows out of a Fellow's specific area of concentration, and often incorporates work done during the summer internship.

For further information, check the department Web site.

Application:
Applicants to CIPA must meet all Graduate School application requirements. The GRE general test is also required. Applicants for whom English is a second language must take the GRE writing assessment test and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). In the written "Statement of Purpose," all applicants should address the following points:
  • why you are applying to the program
  • personal and/or professional experience that led to your interest in Cornell's M.P.A. program
  • your future goals (how you intend to put your M.P.A. degree to use)
  • examples of volunteer work, positions of responsibility, and any other life experience contributing to your interest in public affairs
  • evidence of ability to communicate clearly through writing

Faculty:

  • Josephine Allen -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; social policy; Research interests: social policy; administration and planning in human services; comparative social welfare; women and development

  • N'Diri Assie-Lumumba -- Concentrations: international development studies; Research interests: international development

  • Rosemary Avery -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: public policy

  • Iwan Azis -- Concentrations: finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; international development studies; social policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • Alaka Basu -- Concentrations: international development studies; social policy; Research interests: public affairs

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

  • Sherene Baugher -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; Research interests: American Indians and environmental planning; urban planning history; historic preservation planning; urban archaeology

  • Barbara Bedford -- Concentrations: environmental policy; Research interests: plant ecology; biogeochemistry; freshwater wetlands; environmental regulation; conservation

  • Lourdes Beneria -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; international development studies; social policy; Research interests: labor markets; gender and work; regional and international development; global restructuring

  • Nelson Bills -- Concentrations: finance and fiscal policy; Research interests: finance and fiscal policy

  • John Bishop -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: personnel and human resource studies

  • Richard Booth -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: land-use law; environmental planning; environmental politics; environmental law; critical-area preservation; administrative law

  • Ross Brann -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: public affairs

  • Nancy Brooks -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: finance and fiscal policy

  • David Brown -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; international development studies; social policy; Research interests: population and development; community sociology; applied sociology

  • Valerie Bunce -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: comparative/international politics; post-communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

  • Richard Burkhauser --

  • Allen Carlson -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: public affairs

  • Ho Yan (Nancy) Chau -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy;

  • Pierre Clavel -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; public and nonprofit management; Research interests: city administration; politics; local economic development

  • Lance Compa -- Concentrations: public and nonprofit management; Research interests: public and nonprofit management

  • Jon Conrad -- Concentrations: environmental policy; Research interests: applied econometrics and quantitative analysis; resource economics; environmental economics

  • Maria Cook -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; Research interests: labor and politics in Latin America; comparative migrations

  • Locksley Edmondson -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; international development studies; Research interests: African and Caribbean politics

  • Ronald Ehrenberg -- Concentrations: science and technology policy; Research interests: labor economics

  • Theodore Eisenberg -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; Research interests: empirical legal research; civil rights; bankruptcy; death penalty

  • Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue -- Concentrations: international development studies; social policy; Research interests: international development; social policy

  • Matthew Evangelista -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; Research interests: international relations; comparative foreign policy; transnational foreign politics; Russian politics

  • Rochelle (Shelley) Feldman -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; social policy; Research interests: feminist epistemology and methods; political sociology; social inequalities; gender relations; social change; international political economy; contemporary theory

  • Gary Fields -- Concentrations: international development studies; public and nonprofit management; Research interests: international and comparative labor relations; labor economics

  • Magnus Fiskesjo -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: government; politics and policy

  • John Forester -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: planning practice and politics; ethics; critical social theory; negotiation and public dispute resolution

  • Robert Frank -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; Research interests: behavioral economics; applied economics

  • R. Richard Geddes -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; public and nonprofit management; Research interests: public affairs

  • Jennifer Gerner -- Concentrations: finance and fiscal policy; social policy; Research interests: welfare economics and public policy; economics of the household; consumers and the market; consumer policy

  • William Goldsmith -- Concentrations: international development studies; social policy; Research interests: urban studies; Latin American studies; urban poverty; urbanization and environment; international planning; political economy

  • Douglas Gurak -- Concentrations: international development studies; social policy; Research interests: international development; social policy

  • Stephen Hamilton -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: adolescent development and education; transition from school to career; apprenticeship; international comparison

  • Salah Hassan -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; international development studies; Research interests: African and African American art and folklore

  • George Hay -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; Research interests: antitrust law and competition policy

  • Ronald Herring -- Concentrations: international development studies; Research interests: public affairs

  • Stephen Hilgartner -- Concentrations: science and technology policy; Research interests: politics of science and technology; social studies of science; biomedicine and biotechnology; risk controversies

  • Thomas Hirschl -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: social stratification; research methods and statistics; state and local demography

  • Robert Hutchens -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: labor economics

  • Steven Jackson -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: government, politics and policy

  • George Jakubson -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: labor economics

  • Robert Jarrow -- Concentrations: finance and fiscal policy; Research interests: finance; mathematical economics; game theory; applied mathematics; microeconomic theory

  • David Just -- Concentrations: science and technology policy; social policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • Sanjiv (Ravi) Kanbur -- Concentrations: international development studies; Research interests: public economics; development economics

  • Harry Katz -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history

  • Mary Katzenstein -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice;

  • Peter Katzenstein -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: security policy; political economy; relation between international and domestic politics

  • Donald Kenkel -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: economics of disease prevention and health promotion policies; cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of health

  • Sheryl Kimes -- Concentrations: public and nonprofit management; Research interests: operations research management

  • Barbara Knuth -- Concentrations: environmental policy; Research interests: resource policy and evaluation; human dimensions of natural resource management

  • John Kuder -- Concentrations: public and nonprofit management; Research interests: health services economics

  • Neema Kudva -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • Sarosh Kuruvilla -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; international development studies; Research interests: human rights and social justice; international development

  • Steven Kyle -- Concentrations: finance and fiscal policy; international development studies; science and technology policy; Research interests: finance and fiscal policy; international development policy

  • David Lewis -- Concentrations: 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; Research interests: planning analysis; rural development; regional planning and administrative decentralization in developing countries

  • Daniel Loucks -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: water resource and environmental management systems

  • Theodore Lowi -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: American government and politics; public policy and administration

  • Kathryn March -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: social organization; South Asian studies; women?s studies

  • Alan Mathios -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; social policy; Research interests: consumer protection; antitrust law and economics; public utility regulation; federal and state regulation

  • Alan McAdams -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; Research interests: global strategies for knowledge management; environmental management; management consulting

  • Muna Ndulo -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; international development studies; Research interests: governance and democratization; human rights; peace keeping and legal aspects of foreign investments

  • Victor Nee -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: economy and society; racial and ethnic relations; social stratification

  • Porus Olpadwala -- Concentrations: international development studies; science and technology policy; Research interests: political economy; rural development; technology development and transfer; transnational corporations; agricultural development

  • Alice Pell -- Concentrations: international development studies; Research interests: public affairs; international development

  • David Pelletier -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; social policy; Research interests: nutrition policies and programs in the U.S. and developing countries

  • Elizabeth Peters -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; 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

  • Gregory Poe -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; 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

  • Patricia Pollak -- Concentrations: environmental policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: political economy of housing; dynamics of neighborhood change; housing policy

  • Uri Possen -- Concentrations: finance and fiscal policy; Research interests: public finance; monetary economics

  • Kandukuri Raman -- Concentrations: international development studies; Research interests: international development

  • Christine Ranney -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; social policy; Research interests: public policy analysis; resource economics

  • Vithala Rao -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: marketing; quantitative analysis for administration; marketing and quantitative methods; marketing research and models; multivariate models

  • Mildred Sanders -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: political development; social movements; regulation

  • Vilma Santiago-Irizarry -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; social policy; Research interests: institutional culture; legal, applied, and urban anthropology; dance/movement; Latino studies; bilingualism and language

  • Martin Shefter -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: urban politics; American political development and institutions

  • Kosali Simon -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • John Sipple -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; public and nonprofit management; Research interests: public affairs

  • Tammo Steenhuis -- Concentrations: environmental policy; Research interests: environmental policy

  • Peter Stein -- Concentrations: science and technology policy; Research interests: science and technology policy

  • Robert Summers -- Concentrations: human rights and social justice; Research interests: jurisprudence; legal theory; contracts; commercial law

  • Sharon Tennyson -- Concentrations: social policy; Research interests: social policy

  • Pamela Tolbert -- Concentrations: public and nonprofit management; Research interests: organizational behavior

  • Michael Tomlan -- Concentrations: environmental policy; public and nonprofit management; Research interests: building-conservation technology; survey and documentation methods for preservation; preservation economics and finance; urban history

  • William Trochim -- Concentrations: public and nonprofit management; science and technology policy; social policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • Norman Uphoff -- Concentrations: 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; Research interests: rural development; development policy; political economy; public policy; administration

  • Nicholas Van de Walle -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: public affairs

  • Kathleen Vogel -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; science and technology policy; Research interests: science and technology

  • Henry Wan Jr. -- Research interests: public affairs

  • Zellman Warhaft -- Concentrations: science and technology policy; Research interests: experimental study of fluid turbulence with applications to mixing and transport processes in the atmosphere and in industrial processes

  • Mildred Warner -- Concentrations: finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: public policy

  • Christopher Way -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; Research interests: government; politics and policy

  • Elaine Wethington -- Concentrations: science and technology policy;

  • Lindy Williams -- Concentrations: government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; social policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • Steven Wolf -- Concentrations: environmental policy; science and technology policy; Research interests: public affairs

  • Jerome Ziegler -- Concentrations: environmental policy; finance and fiscal policy; government, politics, and policy studies; human rights and social justice; international development studies; public and nonprofit management; social policy; Research interests: urban policy; programs and government; intergovernmental systems; educational programs, service, and policy; international development policy; ethics; public policy


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