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2019-2020 HKS Admissions Brochure.Pdf MASTER'S PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO Harvard Kennedy School attracts a diverse group of candidates. This snapshot shows our degree programs based on a five-year average. MPP MPA/ID MPA MC/MPA ENTERING CLASS SIZE 238 69 82 212 AVERAGE AGE 26 27 28 37 Every generation faces an opportunity and a AVERAGE YEARS WORKED 3 4 5 13 responsibility to meet the great challenges of its era. Today’s most compelling global issues — entrenched FEMALE 50% 45% 41% 41% poverty to climate change to security threats — are MALE 50% 55% 59% 59% complex, interrelated, and urgent. They require bold thinking and passionate leaders with the courage and INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS* 29% 77% 53% 56% the tools to turn ideas into action. U.S. STUDENTS OF COLOR** 37% 46% 44% 56% Joint and Concurrent Programs Students may pursue joint or concurrent programs with other professional schools at Harvard or with selected At Harvard Kennedy School, our mission This unique learning environment professional schools outside Harvard. Joint degree programs feature integrated coursework developed by faculty is to educate exceptional public leaders stimulates the development of principled members to provide a holistic learning experience. Coursework for concurrent degree programs is not as closely and generate ideas that help solve and effective public leaders and integrated—students weave together the two halves of their learning experience independently. public problems. Through our rigorous innovative solutions that can influence HARVARD CONCURRENT CONCURRENT CONCURRENT educational programs and cutting- societies and improve lives. At Harvard JOINT DEGREES LAW DEGREES MEDICAL DEGREES BUSINESS DEGREES edge research initiatives, we seek to Kennedy School, we take great pride in MPP, MPA/ID MPP, MPA/ID, MPA MPP, MPA/ID, MPA MPP, MPA/ID, MPA influence and improve governance and the international connections we make, • Harvard Business School • Berkeley Law, • University of California, • MIT Sloan School • Harvard Law School University of California San Francisco of Management the development of effective public the professional networks we facilitate, School of Medicine • Columbia Law School • Stanford Graduate policy at all levels. Harvard Kennedy and the inspiration we evoke. If you are HARVARD • Duke University • Other schools on a School of Business School brings together from across prepared to engage and be engaged — if CONCURRENT DEGREES School of Law case-by-case basis • Tuck School • MPP, MPA/ID, MPA • Georgetown Law of Business at Dartmouth continents and sectors a diverse group you care deeply about the world and DUAL DEGREE • Harvard Divinity School • New York University • Wharton School at the of individuals who are committed are committed to helping lead the MC/MPA • Harvard Graduate School of Law University of Pennsylvania • The Graduate to the public interest. Scholars and way toward a better future — Harvard School of Design • Northwestern Pritzker Institute, Geneva practitioners, public officials and social Kennedy School presents an opportunity • Harvard Medical School School of Law (MPP only) innovators, educators and students, like no other. We invite you to… • Stanford Law School • Harvard School • University of teach and learn from one another in a of Dental Medicine Michigan Law School vibrant atmosphere of intense inquiry • University of and open dialogue. Pennsylvania Law School Ask What You Can Do. • Yale Law School * Defined as those who do not hold U.S. citizenship. HKS students come from approximately 100 countries and territories outside the United States. ** Represents the percentage of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who identify as students of color 1 MPP The two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) is a rigorous program that prepares students SPRING EXERCISE to understand complex policy problems and to craft concrete solutions. Through courses, Spring Exercise is a two-week simulation that exercises, and fieldwork, students master a conceptual tool kit that draws on the social challenges students to intellectually integrate and practically apply the disciplines taught in the MPP sciences but is adapted for action. MPP candidates arrive at Harvard Kennedy School core. The exercise gives students the opportunity committed to improving the world, and they equip themselves to do so by developing to apply core tools and concepts to a complex policy broad-spectrum analytic competency. This defining feature of the MPP translates into problem in a setting and at a pace similar to those of intellectual honesty, a hunger for evidence, and the capacity to extract answerable questions a professional environment. It serves as a capstone to the first-year core and a bridge to the second year from the messy clutter of real-world public problems. Students develop familiarity with a PAE and subsequent professional work. wide range of analytic methods and the habit of picking the right tool to fit the task. Past Spring Exercise projects have included: — • Anti-microbial Resistance Curriculum Policy Areas • Autonomous Vehicles MPP candidates are arranged in cohorts of roughly As a complement to the MPP core curriculum, • Iceland’s Energy Future MPP Class of 2018 60 students for a first-year core curriculum featuring students are required to specialize in a policy area of Employment Overview policy analysis, economics, management and concentration (PAC) or a concentration. MPP candidates • The Opioid Crisis MPP graduates apply their core training, policy leadership, empirical analysis, negotiation, ethics, and develop expertise in their areas through required and — politics. The first year culminates in a Spring Exercise, elective courses and a policy-oriented seminar, which interests, and functional skills to roles and and most students spend the summer in a policy- culminates in the generation of the PAE. organizations across employment sectors. The majority of MPPs find positions in the public and oriented internship. The Policy Analysis Exercise POLICY ANALYSIS EXERCISE (PAE) Students choose from the following policy areas: nonprofit sectors following graduation. However, (PAE)—a client-driven, often team-based practicum— The PAE is an analytic and consultative professional each graduating class demonstrates a wide diversity caps the second-year curriculum. product, typically about 40 pages, in which students • Business and Government Policy of employment preferences. — examine an existing public or nonprofit policy or • Democracy, Politics, and Institutions management issue presented by a client. An applied • International and Global Affairs thesis, the PAE allows students to integrate and apply • Political and Economic Development the technical skills and specialized knowledge they have gained through their coursework. MPP • Social and Urban Policy graduates often point to the PAE as a highlight of their HKS education. Past PAE projects have included: Employment Sector Breakdown • Policy recommendations to an international — nonprofit organization for promoting human 38% Private rights best practices in the energy industry 30% Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organization “HKS offered me the chance to find • Social media strategy for a major U.S. city police 28% Public department a community, to help improve a 15% National/Federal Government community, and therefore to better • High-tech growth plan for the president’s office 7% Intergovernmental Organization myself as a public servant.” of a developing country 5% City/Local/Regional Government 1% State/Provincial Government • Analysis for a U.S. federal government agency of JONATHAN MCMASTER MPP 2013 4% Unspecified United States the impact of educational technology programs U.S. Diplomat, Department of State on learning outcomes for migrant students LEFT An MPP student presents her PAE work at the annual PAE showcase event. TOP MPP Faculty Chair John Donahue's teaching focuses on public sector reform 2 hks.harvard.edu/mpp and distribution of public responsibilities across government. 3 MPA/ID The two-year Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) SUMMER INTERNSHIP is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. MPA/ID students spend the summer between their It is an economics-centered, multidisciplinary program that combines rigorous first and second years working on development projects, usually in developing countries. These training in analytic and quantitative methods with an emphasis on policy and internships are hands-on opportunities for students practice. Applicants must demonstrate competence in economics and quantitative to put the skills they have learned in their first year to analysis as well as leadership potential in international development. Most admitted the test, and to gain additional real-world experience candidates have at least three years of development-related work experience, and guidance as they think about the careers they will pursue after HKS. Students with substantial previous typically in developing or transitional economy countries. work experience use their internships to explore — new organizations, areas of interest, or regions of the world. Some students choose to build on their Curriculum Core courses include: internship experience when they write their Second Year Policy Analysis. As part of a multidisciplinary core curriculum, • Advanced Macroeconomics MPA/ID students take microeconomics, — • Advanced Microeconomics macroeconomics, and econometrics sequences. These courses are taught at
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