<p><a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/course_catalog/public_policy.html[/url]”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/course_catalog/public_policy.html</a></p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a public policy major. It is an interdisciplinary concentration that is taken in connection with another major or, more typically, as an honors minor.</p>
<p>It draws course offerings from Poli Sci, Econ, Engineering, Sociology/Anthropology, and other departments. Looks like it has a strong quantitative analysis component. The concentration also requires a senior thesis in public policy and a summer internship (often pre-arranged by the school in Washington).</p>
<p>Regardless of which department(s) you attack it from, public policy has been a traditional strength at Swarthmore. It could probably be argued that it is Swarthmore’s number one specialty. Swarthmore produces more PhDs per 100 graduates than any other college or university in the country in Political Science and in Economics, and in Social Sciences overall and a lot of Swarthmore grads have gone into public policy careers.</p>