The Cornell Institute for Public Affairs is a public policy program

Public policy school

Public policy schools teach students policy analysis, policy studies, public policy, political economy, urban planning, public administration, public affairs, and public management.Public policy schools offer a wide range of public policy degrees...

 at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

. It acts as a quasi-department, independent of any college or school at Cornell. It offers a two-year public affairs

Public administration

Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....

 course of study leading to the Master of Public Administration

Master of Public Administration

The Master of Public Administration is a professional post-graduate degree in Public Administration. The MPA program prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state/provincial, and federal/national government, and increasingly in nongovernmental organization and...

 (M.P.A.) degree.

Campus

CIPA is headquartered in Caldwell Hall.

MPA program

CIPA students, or "fellows," have the flexibility to design individualized plans of study using faculty resources from across the university. More than 100 Cornell University faculty members representing 25+ units make up the field of public affairs. CIPA has approximately 200 students enrolled in its M.P.A. program.

Students choose their course of study--domestic or international--from a broad range of options: 1) Environmental Policy; 2) Finance and Fiscal Policy; 3) Government, Politics, and Policy Studies; 4) Human Rights and Social Justice; 5) International Development Studies; 6) Public and Nonprofit Management; 7) Science and Technology Policy; and 8) Social Policy. Within each concentration, the opportunity exists for further specialization based on a student's interests.

Accelerated, joint, and exchange programs

• Accelerated MPA
• Joint program with Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
  Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
  The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1946 and renamed in 1984 after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C...
  
   (MPA/MBA)
• Joint program with Cornell Law School
  Cornell Law School
  Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University and one of the five Ivy League law schools. The school confers three law degrees...
  
   (JD/MPA)

Rankings

For 2008, Cornell's MPA program was ranked #36 overall by U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...

. In specific offerings, CIPA ranked #20 in Health Policy & Management and #32 in Public Policy Analysis.