Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 31, 2008
Maxwell School Named #1 Graduate School of Public
Affairs by U.S.News & World Report Once
Again!
For more information, please contact:
Jill Leonhardt
jlleonha@maxwell.syr.edu
315-443-5492
For the sixth consecutive time, the Maxwell School of Syracuse
University has landed atop U.S.News and World Report's rankings of
graduate schools of public affairs. Maxwell has held the
number-one spot since the rankings category for public affairs was
created in 1995.
U.S.News also ranked Maxwell first in the public affairs
specialties of: public management and administration, and
public finance and budgeting; and second in the specialties of
nonprofit management and information, and technology
management. Overall, the School landed in the top ten in
seven specialties.
At the core of Maxwell's stellar reputation in public affairs is
its master of public administration degree program, which was
created nearly 90 years ago as the nation's first such professional
program. Additionally, Maxwell is the only graduate school
whose professional programs in public administration and
international affairs are integrated with social science
departments (political science, history, anthropology, sociology,
geography, and economics). This tradition of
interdisciplinary research provides a rich context for the study of
public policy analysis and management that features a rigorous
blend of theory, policy, and practice.
The U.S.News rankings are based on a peer survey of 266 master of
public affairs and public administration programs around the
country who recognized Maxwell's outstanding achievements in
scholarship and curriculum, and the quality of its faculty and
graduates.
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The Maxwell School of Syracuse University is the premier academic institution in the United States committed to scholarship, civic leadership, and education in public and international affairs. Maxwell is home to Syracuse University’s social science departments and to numerous nationally recognized multidisciplinary graduate programs in public policy, international studies, social policy, and conflict resolution. Maxwell's graduate program in public administration -- the first of its kind in the nation -- is ranked consistently the leading graduate public affairs program in the country.