Master of Public Policy (MPP) courses can be one or two years long, depending on the country and program full or part-time.

Top universities for public policy masters programs

University of California—Berkeley (Goldman)
Berkeley, CA

Harvard University (Kennedy)
Cambridge, MA

University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ford)
Ann Arbor, MI

University of Chicago (Harris)
Chicago, IL

Princeton University (Wilson)
Princeton, NJ

Duke University (Sanford)
Durham, NC

Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz)
Pittsburgh, PA

Syracuse University (Maxwell)
Syracuse, NY

Indiana University—Bloomington
Bloomington, IN

University of Wisconsin—Madison (La Follette)
Madison, WI

University of Texas—Austin (LBJ)
Austin, TX

University of Southern California (Price)
Los Angeles, CA

New York University (Wagner)
New York, NY

University of Washington (Evans)
Seattle, WA

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Georgetown University
Washington, DC

University of Maryland—College Park
College Park, MD

University of California—Los Angeles (Luskin)
Los Angeles, CA

University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Humphrey)
Minneapolis, MN

George Washington University (Trachtenberg)
Washington, DC

Ohio State University (Glenn)
Columbus, OH

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

University of Kentucky (Martin)
Lexington, KY

University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

George Mason University
Arlington, VA