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Global Citizens

Join a culturally diverse community of students, pursue research and internships around the world, and study in our in-house, interdisciplinary institute for global affairs.

Crossing Boundaries

Learn from a diverse faculty, connecting across disciplines to assure that social sciences inform a public affairs career, and that scholarship never forgets the tangible ends it serves.

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Career Oriented

Earn a degree that leaves you not just trained, but big-picture wise and can-do savvy. The Maxwell blend of theory, policy, and practice prepares you to launch a truly great career.

Alumni-Centric

Enter a network of influential alumni famously loyal to Maxwell, to one another, and to the idea that well-educated public servants change the world.

Connected to the World

Benefit from frequent visiting leaders and intellectuals — and from our D.C. headquarters at CSIS, where you will connect to world difference makers.

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Graduate Professional Degrees

Efficiently paced IR and MPA programs, centered around transferrable leadership skills and drawing on Maxwell's interdisciplinary social science environment

Graduate Social Science Degrees

Scholarly master's and PhD programs, benefiting from nine interdisciplinary research institutes and Maxwell's strong public policy emphases

Undergraduate Majors & Minors

Social science degrees and electives, featuring the same faculty and facilities as the graduate programs and steeped in interdisciplinary citizenship studies

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Maxwell provides executive training for India's IAS senior officers
Elizabeth Cohen comments on revised travel ban in Boston Herald
Huber interviewed by Time about the recent Southwest heatwave

Reeher discusses Trump's energy proposals in Washington Examiner
Maxwell provides executive training for India's IAS senior officers
Elizabeth Cohen comments on revised travel ban in Boston Herald

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Van der Vort '13 MA (PSc) publishes article on playful protesting
Incoming MPA student Ryan Gross named 2017 Tillman Scholar
James Tatum '17 MPA article on Detroit bankruptcy in Urban Lawyer

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Popp wins AERE award for paper on induced innovation and energy prices
Purser, Ortiz Valdez release report on treatment of dairy farmworkers
Maxwell students awarded summer research and mentorship opportunity

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Banks weighs in on Jeh Johnson testimony on Bloomberg Law
Bertini discusses role of education in ending hunger in IFPRI podcast
Hou weighs in on China's property tax in Financial Times
Thomsen discusses lack of Republican women in Congress in Wash Post
Part 2 of Barkun's interview on white supremacy published in Salon
Incoming MPA student Ryan Gross named 2017 Tillman Scholar
Logan Strother '13 MA (PSc) article on Confederate flag in Wash Post

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The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is Syracuse University’s home for innovative, interdisciplinary teaching and research in the social sciences, public policy, public administration, and international relations. It is the nation’s #1 ranked school for graduate education in public affairs (U.S. News), and is home also to undergraduate social science degrees and nine interdisciplinary research centers focused on topical areas within public affairs.

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