Your degree, your way with our policy concentrations

Build your aptitude in operationalizing and governing AI systems from the start of the AI life cycle to deployment. Open to Public Policy and Management Flagship and Data Analytics students. Courses include: 

• Fundamentals of Operationalizing AI: Mastering AI Life Cycle from Theory to Practice
• Responsible AI: Principles, Policies, Practices
• AI Strategy & Governance
• Generative AI Lab
• AI Security
• Demystifying AI
• Introduction to AI

Learn to influence cyber policy and understand the growing threat landscape affecting public, private, and non-profit organizations. Courses include:

• Introduction to Information Security Management
• Cybersecurity Policy and Governance
• Privacy in the Digital Age
• Network and Internet Security
• Cryptography
• Network Situational Awareness

Prepare yourself for leadership in energy systems and related fields with this concentration offered in partnership with the CMU College of Engineering. Courses include:

• Energy Conversion and Supply
• Energy Transport and Storage
• Energy Demand and Utilization
• Energy Policy and Economics
• Energy and the Environment
• Resilient and Sustainable Communities

Tackle environmental policy challenges that affect the air we breathe, the water we drink, the way we live, and how communities and cities can grow responsibly and sustainably. Courses include:

• Environmental Policy and Planning
• Energy and the Environment
• Resilient and Sustainable Communities
• Environmental Politics and Policy
• Cities, Technology, and the Environment
• Introduction to Sustainability Engineering

Learn to think critically and solve problems within the complex economic, political, and financial environment in which health care is delivered. Courses include:

• Health Systems
• Health Policy
• Advanced Financial Management of Health Care
• Health Care Information Systems

Looking for more? We also offer: Master of Science in Health Care Analytics degree.

Students wishing to work for international organizations or collaborate with international partners can explore the impacts of globalization on society, business, and politics. Courses include:

• Policy in a Global Economy
• Human Rights, Conflicts, and Development
• Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policies
• Rise of the Asian Economies
• Critical Analysis of Policy Research
• Methods of Policy Analysis: The Future of Work

A deep dive into management, planning, human resources, decision-making, and analytic strategies within organizations that serve the public interest. Courses include:

• Evidence-Based Management
• Developing as a Leader
• Negotiation
• Innovation Management in Practice
• Organizational Change
• Management Consulting

Prepare for an impactful career as a policy analyst, taking on high-level and big-picture policy problems relevant to the public and non-profit sectors. Courses include:

• Program Evaluation
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Applied Econometrics
• Methods of Policy Analysis
• Public Policy Implementation
• Design and Policy for Humanitarian Impact

This concentration is specifically targeted to provide a background in the theory and practice of nonprofit finance, ideal for students seeking financial roles in the public or nonprofit sectors. Courses include:

• Budgeting and Management Control
• Public Finance
• Accounting and Control in Not-for-Profit Organizations
• Regional Finance and Education Policy
• Cost-Benefit Analysis

This concentration is tailored toward students who wish to lead digital transformation at the community level. Integrating technology, social science, design, and management, coursework is drawn from across the university and covers ethical deployment of technology, smart mobility, connectivity, sustainability, and resilience. Courses include:

• Resilient and Sustainable Communities
• Smart Cities: Growth and Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Privacy, Policy, Technology, and the Law
• AI, Society, and Humanity
• Design Thinking for Social Innovation
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Influence policy that will spur growth at the local, regional, and state levels with a thorough understanding of the forces that drive economic development programs and strategies. Courses include:

• Urban and Regional Economic Development
• Real Estate Development
• Urban Policy
• Cities, Technology, and the Environment
• Resilient and Sustainable Communities
• Smart Cities: Growth and Intelligent Transportation Systems