公共事務(wù)（Public Affairs）是學(xué)習(xí)如何管理公共事務(wù)的專(zhuān)業(yè)，城市規(guī)劃、公共政策、社會(huì)政策、環(huán)境政策、衛(wèi)生政策、非營(yíng)利組織管理、公共信息與技術(shù)管理、公共財(cái)政政策及管理等都屬于公共事務(wù)的范疇。公共事務(wù)專(zhuān)業(yè)一般開(kāi)設(shè)于類(lèi)似于政府學(xué)院或?qū)ｉT(mén)的公共事務(wù)學(xué)院之下，該專(zhuān)業(yè)最典型學(xué)位MPA或MPP學(xué)位。MPA全稱(chēng)Master of Public Administration，也即公共管理碩士；MPP全稱(chēng)Master of Public Policy，也即公共政策碩士。MPA比較側(cè)重于行政管理方面的工作，而MPP則側(cè)重于從事政策分析方面的工作。
公共事務(wù)專(zhuān)業(yè)的PhD專(zhuān)業(yè)，主要從事公共事務(wù)方面的研究工作，常見(jiàn)的研究方向有：公共衛(wèi)生（PhD in Health Policy）、社會(huì)政策（PhD in Social Policy）、公共政策（PhD in Public Policy）、政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)（PhD in Political Economy & Government）。*(1)
公共事務(wù)專(zhuān)業(yè)的畢業(yè)生主要去往政府機(jī)構(gòu)、私營(yíng)企業(yè)（如銀行、證券公司等）、各類(lèi)非營(yíng)利組織（如國(guó)際勞工組織、聯(lián)合國(guó)糧農(nóng)組織、聯(lián)合國(guó)教科文組織、世界衛(wèi)生組織、國(guó)際貨幣基金組織等）、其它機(jī)構(gòu)（如醫(yī)院、學(xué)校）等公共組織從事管理或政策分析的工作。對(duì)國(guó)際學(xué)生而言，主要進(jìn)入私營(yíng)企業(yè)和非營(yíng)利組織，也可以進(jìn)入相應(yīng)國(guó)家的政府機(jī)構(gòu)擔(dān)任公務(wù)員。在國(guó)內(nèi)就業(yè)的話(huà)，MPA或MPP專(zhuān)業(yè)畢業(yè)生，可以進(jìn)入了政界、商界、文化管理、大眾傳媒甚至金融領(lǐng)域。
申請(qǐng)要求
MPP和MPA的申請(qǐng)大多要求申請(qǐng)者有一定的前置條件，如哈佛大學(xué)的MPP專(zhuān)業(yè)的申請(qǐng)條件描述：
“要求本科畢業(yè)，且最好有經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、微積分以及統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)的學(xué)習(xí)背景，無(wú)工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)要求，但最好能有2-3年的工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)。” *(3)
MPA專(zhuān)業(yè)申請(qǐng)描述：
“求學(xué)生本科學(xué)過(guò)微觀(guān)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)（microeconomics）、宏觀(guān)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)（macroeconomics）、微積分（calculus）以及多元微積分（multivariable calculus）課程，并強(qiáng)烈建議學(xué)生學(xué)過(guò)線(xiàn)性代數(shù)（linear algebra）、統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)（statistics）課程。GRE數(shù)學(xué)最好能在總分80%以上（也即170分制的158分），申請(qǐng)者最好能有2-3年的工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)。” *(4)
大學(xué)排名
2014USNEWS公共事務(wù)（Public Affairs）項(xiàng)目排名
| 排名 | 學(xué)校 | 學(xué)校英文名 | 所在城市/州 |
| 1 | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | |
| 2 | Indiana University,Bloomington | Bloomington, IN | |
| 3 | 哈佛大學(xué) | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA |
| 4 | University of Georgia | Athens, GA | |
| 5 | Princeton, NJ | ||
| 6 | New York University | New York, NY | |
| 6 | University of California,Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | |
| 6 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | |
| 9 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 9 | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS | |
| 9 | University of Washington | Seattle, WA | |
| 12 | American University | Washington, DC | |
| 12 | George Washington University | Washington, DC | |
| 12 | University of Michigan,Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | |
| 12 | University of Wisconsin,Madison | Madison, WI | |
| 16 | Arizona State University | Phoenix, AZ | |
| 16 | Duke University | Durham, NC | |
| 16 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | |
| 16 | SUNY University at Albany | Albany, NY | |
| 16 | University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | |
| 16 | University of Minnesota,Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | |
| 16 | University of Texas,Austin | Austin, TX | |
| 23 | Georgetown University | Washington, DC | |
| 23 | Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA | |
| 23 | 羅格斯新澤西州立大學(xué)紐華克分校 | Rutgers,the State University of New jersey-Newark | Newark, NJ |
| 23 | University of California,Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | |
| 23 | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | |
| 23 | University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | |
| 29 | Columbia University | New York, NY | |
| 29 | Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | |
| 29 | University of Colorado,Denver | Denver, CO | |
| 29 | University of Maryland,Baltimore County | College Park, MD | |
| 33 | Texas A&M University–College Station | College Station, TX | |
| 33 | University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | |
| 33 | University of Nebraska at Omaha | Omaha, NE | |
| 33 | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 37 | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | |
| 37 | University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | |
| 37 | University of Delaware | Newark, DE | |
| 37 | University of Illinois,Chicago | Chicago, IL | |
| 37 | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA | |
| 42 | Cleveland State University | Cleveland, OH | |
| 42 | George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | |
| 42 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | |
| 42 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | |
| 46 | CUNY–?Baruch College | New York, NY | |
| 46 | 海軍研究生院 | Naval Postgraduate School | Monterey, CA |
| 46 | Northern Illinois University | DeKalb, IL | |
| 46 | Portland State University | Portland, OR | |
| 46 | 羅格斯新澤西州立大學(xué)新布倫瑞克分校 | Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey,New Brunswick | New Brunswick, NJ |
| 46 | University of Connecticut | West Hartford, CT | |
| 46 | University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | |
| 53 | SUNY Binghamton University | Binghamton, NY | |
| 53 | Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | |
| 53 | Brown University | Providence, RI | |
| 53 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | |
| 53 | North Carolina State University,Raleigh | Raleigh, NC | |
| 53 | Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | |
| 59 | Brigham Young University,Provo | Provo, UT | |
| 59 | 紐約市立大學(xué)約翰·杰伊學(xué)院 | CUNY–?John Jay College | New York, NY |
| 59 | Indiana University-Purdue University,Indianapolis | Indianapolis, IN | |
| 59 | Northwestern University | Chicago, IL | |
| 59 | University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | |
| 59 | University of North Carolina,Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | |
| 59 | University of North Texas | Denton, TX | |
| 59 | University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | |
| 67 | Florida International University | Miami, FL | |
| 67 | The New School | New York, NY | |
| 67 | Northeastern University | Boston, MA | |
| 67 | 賓州州立大學(xué)哈里斯堡分校 | Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) - Harrisburg Campus | Middletown, PA |
| 67 | 馬里蘭大學(xué)巴爾的摩郡分校 | University of Maryland–?Baltimore County | Baltimore, MD |
| 67 | University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | |
| 73 | Auburn University | Auburn, AL | |
| 73 | College of William and Mary | Williamsburg, VA | |
| 73 | Louisiana State University–?Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | |
| 73 | 蒙特利國(guó)際研究學(xué)院 | Monterey Institute of International Studies | Monterey, CA |
| 73 | San Diego State University | San Diego, CA | |
| 73 | University of Alabama–?Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | |
| 73 | 巴爾的摩大學(xué) | University of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD |
| 73 | University of Massachusetts–?Amherst | Amherst, MA | |
| 73 | University of Missouri–?Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | |
| 73 | University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | |
| 73 | University of Texas–?Arlington | Arlington, TX | |
| 73 | University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | |
| 73 | Wichita State University | Wichita, KS | |
| 73 | 威拉米特大學(xué) | Willamette University | Salem, OR |
| 87 | 紐約市立大學(xué)城市學(xué)院 | CUNY–?City College | New York, NY |
| 87 | Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA | |
| 87 | San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA | |
| 87 | University of Arkansas (Clinton) | Little Rock, AR | |
| 87 | 伊利諾伊州大學(xué)斯普林菲爾德分校 | University of Illinois–?Springfield | Springfield, IL |
| 87 | University of Louisville | Louisville, KY | |
| 87 | University of Massachusetts–?Boston (McCormack) | Boston, MA | |
| 87 | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | |
| 87 | University of Missouri–?St. Louis | St. Louis, MO | |
| 87 | Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | |
| 97 | 奧本大學(xué)蒙哥馬利分校 | Auburn University–?Montgomery | Montgomery, AL |
| 97 | 加州州立大學(xué)洛杉磯分校 | California State University–?Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA |
| 97 | Florida Atlantic University | Boca Raton, FL | |
| 97 | Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS | |
| 97 | Mississippi State University | Mississippi State, MS | |
| 97 | University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | |
| 97 | Villanova University | Villanova, PA | |
| 104 | 博伊西州立大學(xué) | Boise State University | Boise, ID |
| 104 | College of Charleston | Charleston, SC | |
| 104 | DePaul University | Chicago, IL | |
| 104 | Iowa State University | Ames, IA | |
| 104 | 詹姆斯·麥迪遜大學(xué) | James Madison University | Harrisonburg, VA |
| 104 | Ohio University | Athens, OH | |
| 104 | 奧多明尼昂大學(xué) | Old Dominion University | Norfolk, VA |
| 104 | 羅格斯新澤西州立大學(xué)卡姆登分校 | Rutgers,the State University of New Jersey,Camden | Camden, NJ |
| 104 | San Jose State University | San Jose, CA | |
| 104 | University of Memphis | Memphis, TN | |
| 104 | University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 104 | University of North Carolina,Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | |
| 104 | University of Southern Maine (Muskie) | Portland, ME | |
| 104 | University of Texas–?Dallas | Richardson, TX | |
| 104 | University of Vermont | Burlington, VT | |
| 104 | Washington State University | Vancouver, WA | |
| 104 | West Virginia University | Morgantown, WV | |
| 121 | Bowling Green State University | Bowling Green, OH | |
| 121 | California State University–?Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | |
| 121 | 加州州立大學(xué)薩克拉門(mén)托分校 | California State University–?Sacramento | Sacramento, CA |
| 121 | Evergreen State College | Olympia, WA | |
| 121 | Georgia Southern University | Statesboro, GA | |
| 121 | Grand Valley State University | Grand Rapids, MI | |
| 121 | Kent State University | Kent, OH | |
| 121 | St. Louis University | Saint Louis, MO | |
| 121 | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX | |
| 121 | University of Akron | Akron, OH | |
| 121 | University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | |
| 121 | 阿肯色大學(xué)小石城分校 | University of Arkansas–?Little Rock | Little Rock, AR |
| 121 | University of Nevada–?Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV | |
| 121 | University of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | |
| 121 | University of North Carolina–?Wilmington | Wilmington, NC | |
| 121 | University of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | |
| 121 | University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | |
| 138 | Appalachian State University | Boone, NC | |
| 138 | 紐約州立大學(xué)布魯克波特分校 | College at Brockport–?SUNY | Rochester, NY |
| 138 | 東肯塔基大學(xué) | Eastern Kentucky University | Richmond, KY |
| 138 | Seattle University | Seattle, WA | |
| 138 | Southern Illinois University,Carbondale | Carbondale, IL | |
| 138 | 薩福克大學(xué) | Suffolk University | Boston, MA |
| 138 | Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX | |
| 138 | University of Hawaii,Manoa | Honolulu, HI | |
| 138 | University of Houston | Houston, TX | |
| 138 | University of La Verne | La Verne, CA | |
| 138 | University of Texas–?San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | |
| 149 | California State University–?Fullerton | Fullerton, CA | |
| 149 | California State University–?San Bernardino | San Bernardino, CA | |
| 149 | Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | |
| 149 | East Carolina University | Greenville, NC | |
| 149 | Hamline University | Saint Paul, MN | |
| 149 | Indiana State University | Terre Haute, IN | |
| 149 | 印第安納普渡大學(xué)韋恩堡分校 | Indiana University-?Purdue University–?Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, IN |
| 149 | 肯尼索州立大學(xué) | Kennesaw State University | Kennesaw, GA |
| 149 | Oakland University | Rochester, MI | |
| 149 | 帕克大學(xué) | Park University (Hauptmann) | Kansas City, MO |
| 149 | Seton Hall University | South Orange, NJ | |
| 149 | University of Arkansas–?Fayetteville | Fayetteville, AR | |
| 149 | University of Dayton | Dayton, OH | |
| 149 | University of New Hampshire | Durham, NH | |
| 149 | University of North Florida | Jacksonville, FL | |
| 149 | University of Tennessee–?Chattanooga | Chattanooga, TN | |
| 149 | Western Michigan University | Kalamazoo, MI | |
| 166 | 加州州立大學(xué)北嶺分校 | California State University–?Northridge | Northridge, CA |
| 166 | Central Michigan University | Mt. Pleasant, MI | |
| 166 | Clark University | Worcester, MA | |
| 166 | Drake University | Des Moines, IA | |
| 166 | 東華盛頓大學(xué) | Eastern Washington University | Spokane, WA |
| 166 | Jackson State University | Jackson, MS | |
| 166 | 密蘇里州立大學(xué) | Missouri State University | Springfield, MO |
| 166 | New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM | |
| 166 | Pace University | White Plains, NY | |
| 166 | Tennessee State University | Nashville, TN | |
| 166 | 阿拉斯加大學(xué)安克雷奇分校 | University of Alaska–?Anchorage | Anchorage, AK |
| 166 | 緬因大學(xué) | University of Maine | Orono, ME |
| 166 | University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | |
| 166 | University of Toledo | Toledo, OH | |
| 166 | Wright State University | Dayton, OH |
參考資料：
(1) Harvard Kennedy School Doctoral Programs Harvard Kennedy School
(2) Public Affairs program ranking USNEWS研究生院排名
(3) Applying to HKS Application Harvard Kennedy School
(4) Master in Public Administration/ International Development Harvard Kennedy School
學(xué)校列表
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綜合性大學(xué)（非完全列表）：
文理學(xué)院（非完全列表）：
| 斯克利普斯學(xué)院 | 凱尼恩學(xué)院 | 富蘭克林與馬歇爾學(xué)院 |
| 西方學(xué)院 | 葛底斯堡學(xué)院 | 斯沃斯莫爾學(xué)院 |
| 波莫納學(xué)院 | 克萊蒙特·麥肯納學(xué)院 | 科爾比學(xué)院 |
| 漢密爾頓學(xué)院 | 衛(wèi)斯理大學(xué) | 史密斯學(xué)院 |
研究生
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