Public Policy
Equipping policy leaders for the next generation.
Leadership in Policy Making
The UCLA Department of Public Policy offers a rigorous and challenging program that provides the analytical tools and strategic orientation that one needs to be a leader in identifying policy problems, designing new policies and organizations, advocating their adoption, managing their implementation, and evaluating their impact.
Our Master of Public Policy program combines the best of traditional policy education with a flexibility and responsiveness that enables our graduates to remain relevant and influential in a rapidly changing world. By setting the highest standards of excellence and giving students a diversified tool kit of quantitative and analytical skills, and the flexibility to design a program of study that incorporates the vast intellectual resources of one of the nation’s top research universities, we produce graduates who are equipped to become real leaders in policy making.
Academic Programs
Dual Degrees
By the Numbers
Community of Learning
Small enough to build a strong sense of community among students and faculty, yet large enough to encompass a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds — both domestic and international.
Investing in Students
Roughly a half million dollars a year in fellowships, plus teaching and research assistant opportunities available to all admitted students, regardless of immigration status.
Real-World Practice
MPP students are required to complete a 400-hour field internship with a government agency, nonprofit, private firm, or other approved organization.
Why UCLA?
World-Class Faculty & Specialized Curriculum
Our faculty members are extraordinary scholars in the applied social sciences, with doctorates from top universities, and include two Members of the National Academy of Sciences.
A Diverse Community in a Global Hub
UCLA is one of a handful of universities in the country with public policy programs that are also comprehensive campuses, with top-ranked schools of medicine, public health, business, law, education, and engineering all on the main Westwood campus.
Lifelong Professional Network
Join a diverse student community and gain lifelong access to UCLA’s global alumni network of more than 450,000 Bruins leading change and advancing social impact in communities and organizations around the world.
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Our Student Community
UCLA Luskin Public Policy students form a close-knit community shaped by a wide range of personal, academic and professional experiences. They come from across the United States and around the world, with academic backgrounds spanning the social sciences, humanities, business, science, technology and other fields. Many also bring experience in government, nonprofits, advocacy, education, research, community organizing and the private sector.
This breadth of perspectives strengthens classroom discussion, collaborative research and the broader student experience. United by a shared commitment to public service, students learn from one another while developing the analytical skills, practical knowledge and professional relationships needed to address complex policy challenges in Los Angeles and around the world.
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Contacts
Department of Public Policy
Luskin School of Public Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles
3250 Public Affairs Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
Phone: (310) 825-7667
Wesley Yin
Department Chair
(301) 928-4308
wyin@luskin.ucla.edu
Emily Weisburst
Department Vice Chair
(310) 794-6075
weisburst@ucla.edu
Stacey Yukari Hirose
Manager (Faculty, AP, and Finance)
(310) 794-5050
stacey@luskin.ucla.edu
Ariana Rodriguez
Director of Recruitment and Student Success
(310) 206-3148
ariana@luskin.ucla.edu
Jake Maish
Director of Admissions and Student Affairs
(310) 825-0448
jake@luskin.ucla.edu
Ronaldo Avina
Academic Program Coordinator
(310) 825-7667
ronaldo@luskin.ucla.edu