The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy is the public policy school of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is ranked in the top five policy analysis schools in the United States. It is located on the University's main campus in Hyde Park. In addition to policy studies and policy analysis, the school requires its students to pursue training in economics and statistics through preliminary examinations and course requirements. Further, the Harris School is known for its curricular interactions with the University-at-large, with students drawing upon the offerings of the Booth School of Business, Law School, School of Social Service Administration, and the Graduate Division of the Social Sciences.
The Harris School offers the following full-time professional master's degree programs:
Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.), a two-year program
Master of Science (M.S.) in Computational Analysis and Public Policy, a two-year program offered with the Department of Computer Science
Master of Science (M.S.) in Environmental Science and Policy, a two-year program offered with the Argonne National Laboratory
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Public Policy, a 9-month program
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Public Policy with Certificate in Data Analytics, a 12-month program
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Public Policy with Certificate in Research Methods, a 15-month program
Further, a Ph.D. degree program is offered to students looking to pursue a career designing and conducting policy-relevant research.
The Harris School offers the opportunity for concentrated study in the following areas (but not limited to):
Social and economic policy (includes education policy, environmental policy, family and child policy, health policy, poverty and inequality, and public finance)
International policy (includes national security policy, international political economy, and international development)
Politics and institutions (includes the political economy of state, local and national governance, and the management of governmental and non-profit organizations)
The Harris School partnership with other professional schools and divisions within the University of Chicago to offer accelerated joint/dual degrees.
M.P.P./A.M. – Joint Degree with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
M.P.P./M.Div. – Joint Degree with the Divinity School
M.P.P./M.B.A. – Joint Degree with the Booth School of Business
M.P.P./J.D. – Joint Degree with the Law School
M.P.P./A.M.-SSA – Joint Degree with the School of Social Service Administration
AM/MA-CIR – Dual Degree Committee on International Relations (CIR)
The Professional Option Program with the College
The Harris School runs cooperative programs with other top policy schools outside the US.
Tel Aviv University
University of Chile
Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies
The Harris School takes part on non-degree programs that are offered through the University of Chicago.
Certificate Program in Health Administration and Policy
Graduate Student-At-Large Program
The following professors served as Dean of the Harris School:
Robert T. Michael (1989-1994-Founding Dean, 1998–2002)
Don L. Coursey (1996–1998)
Susan E. Mayer (2002–2009)
Colm O'Muircheartaigh (2009–2014)
Daniel Diermeier (2014–2016)
Kerwin Charles, interim Dean (2016-present)
William G. Howell – Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics; Co-Director, Program on Political Institutions; Professor, Department of Political Science and the College
Tomas J. Philipson – Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies, Harris School; Associate Faculty Member, Department of Economics
Charles Wheelan – Senior Lecturer, Harris School
Frank Kruesi – Former President, Chicago Transit Authority; Visiting faculty member, Harris School
James A. Robinson – British economist and political scientist; University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy
James J. Heckman – Nobel Prize winning economist. Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, and director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development.
Jens Ludwig - McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy
