Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs
3250 Public Affairs Building
Box 951656
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
Public Policy
310-825-7667
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The Department of Public Policy is an interdisciplinary unit composed of faculty members from various disciplines, some of whom hold joint appointments in other UCLA departments. Its goal is to foster an understanding of the theory and practice of public policy in the many fields in which it applies. Examples include education, health care, labor, policing and crime, economic development, immigration, and the environment. The department offers the Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree and participates in the major and minor in Public Affairs.
The MPP degree program is designed to train professionals in both public- and private-sector policy analysis and implementation, and offers coursework in such areas as microeconomics, statistics, political processes, and public and nonprofit management.
Concurrent degree programs allow students to combine study for an MPP with work toward a JD in the School of Law, an MBA in the Anderson Graduate School of Management, an MD in the Geffen School of Medicine, an MPH in the Fielding School of Public Health, or an MSW in the Department of Social Welfare.
