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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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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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