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Study Public Policy at North Carolina's only urban research institute.

2025 Prospective Student Informational Sessions

We admit qualified students for part-time and full-time enrollment to the following programs: Doctoral Degree in Public Policy, Graduate Certificate in Public Policy Research, and Analysis. To learn more, we invite you to attend ONE of our Prospective Student Virtual Information Sessions: Monday, March 3rd, 2025, 12-1 p.m. and Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, 4-5 p.m.

To register for an Informational Session please choose from one of the dates below:

Monday March 3rd at 12pm EST

Wednesday April 9th at 4pm EST

We Are…

an interdisciplinary program that draws faculty from multiple departments across three colleges to research collaboratively with our PhD students to address complex problems facing society. The intellectual focus of the program is on conducting theoretically informed, basic and applied research to seek evidence-based, practical solutions to challenging policy issues.

We study…

policy development, implementation, and evaluation in multiple specialty areas including social and economic policy, development and sustainability policy, particularly in urban environments, and issues of justice and security in local, state, national, and international contexts.

We Seek…

to understand individual and institutional factors that shape decision-making within the broader policy process, including issues of representation and the role of the public.