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U.S.News Ranking
Maxwell: America's #1 Graduate School of Public Affairs! Again.
U.S. News has published graduate-program rankings triennially since 1995. The Maxwell School of Syracuse University has topped all four public affairs listings published thus far. In the current ranking, Maxwell not only leads the overall program listings with a 4.6 reputational score (up from the previous 4.5), but also places number one in the specialties of public management/administration, public finance and budgeting, and nonprofit management. The School is among the top 10 graduate schools for all other public affairs specialties it offers: public policy analysis, city management/urban policy, environmental policy and management, health policy and management, social policy, and information and technology management. Mitchel Wallerstein,
dean of the Maxwell School, says that the U.S.News
rankings offer an important indication of the School's
esteem in the world at large. "Because these are
peer-reputation rankings," he says, "they cannot be viewed
At the core of Maxwell’s reputation in public affairs is its master of public administration degree program, which was created more than 75 years ago—the nation’s first such professional program. According to Jeffrey D. Straussman, professor and chair of the public administration department, the values underlying Maxwell’s public affairs programs have remained constant. “We have developed an approach to public affairs—imbedding public service, citizenship, and democratic theory in the professional programs—and we’ve stuck with it,” he says. “Even while we revise our programs to meet the demands of changing times, our core values have remained unchanged.” Maxwell is the only major school whose professional programs in public administration and international relations are integrated with social science departments (political science, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, and economics). According to Dean Wallerstein, Maxwell’s M.P.A. has always featured a rigorous blend of theory, policy, and practice. “The juxtapostion of academic and professional programs is built into the Maxwell School,” Wallerstein explains. "It's part of our history. And, while it would be foolish to attribute the School's strong reputation to any one factor, I think it's obvious that the way we connect professional and academic programming sets us apart. Anyone who seeks to understand the strength of Maxwell needs to take into account the many advantages we derive—in all our programs—from this mix of theoretical and applied emphases."
The U.S. News rankings
are based on a survey of more than 250 programs nationwide
that confer the M.P.A. (Master of Public Affairs or Master of
Public Administration), the M.P.P. (Master of Public Policy),
or the M.P.M. (Master of Public Management). The survey
emphasized scholarship and curriculum, and the quality of
faculty and graduates.
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