Master of public policy (M.P.P.) (two-year) students are required
to present a three-course (9-credit) concentration to complete their
degree requirements. The program currently offers formal concentrations
in the following areas, each advised by a member of the faculty:
Applied Economics and Policy Analysis
Education Policy
Environmental Policy
Health Policy
Labor Policy
Management
Political Institutions and Processes
Science and Technology Policy
Social Policy
Survey Research
Urban Policy
Students must demonstrate basic
competency in the concentration by achieving a B+ or better in at
least two of the three courses. M.P.P. students must declare a
concentration by the end of their second term in the program. At that
time, the responsibility for advising the student transfers to the
faculty member in charge of that concentration.
Courses
offered toward the concentration may be drawn from offerings within the
public policy program, the Bloustein School, or Rutgers generally, with
the permission of the adviser and the program director. Note that
students may, because of course scheduling, need to take courses in
their concentration during their first year of enrollment.
Students may select courses not formally listed toward their
concentration when they are approved by the faculty member in charge of
the concentration and by the program director. Such selections may
include independent studies, and it is assumed that such independent
studies will normally be conducted under the supervision of the
director of that concentration. No courses from the core may be counted
toward any concentration. Some courses may have pre- or corequisites
that students are responsible for identifying and fulfilling.
