Public Policy Studies at UChicago

uchicagoalum
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:42:14 +0000

You are correct, the UG major is not affiliated with the Harris School. It basically draws upon classes from a variety of other social science majors (economics, political science, sociology) while retaining a small faculty to teach certain core subjects and run a capstone event (a policy project of some sort).

As a general principal, you would better off at any school going from a BA in stat or applied / computational math to a masters of public or educational policy than the other way around. Most graduate policy and education schools programs will allow you take very challenging quantitative courses (including PhD level ones) if your UG major is right. Not so in reverse (BA in PP, MS in Stat is basically unheard of at selective universities).