Arizona State University

The ASU School of Public Affairs offers innovative educational and professional opportunities to help build stronger and more effective public leaders. Our academic programs prepare people for a variety of positions in the public and nonprofit arenas by encouraging clear and thoughtful analysis, innovative approaches to management, and a creative understanding of the governance process.

The ASU School of Public Affairs offers the only NASPAA-accredited MPA program in the Phoenix metropolitan area, a program consistently ranked as one of the best MPA programs in the country by U.S. News and World Report. The School also offers a highly regarded Ph.D. program in Public Administration, as well as undergraduate programs in Public Management and Administration and in Leadership and Ethics. The School will begin offering a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Metropolitan Studies and a Master of Public Policy degree next year.

In conjunction with the School’s move to a new Downtown Phoenix campus in the fall of 2006, the ASU School of Public Affairs has recently made a new commitment to “advancing urban governance in a global context.” We recognize that the new demands on public leadership in the context of global urban governance are absolutely unprecedented in complexity and scope. The ASU School of Public Affairs believes that the most important intellectual contribution we can make is to develop multiple, useful, and realistic models of governance with attendant processes for extended civic engagement and to help train a new generations of urban leaders capable of addressing the questions raised by the growth of global city-states.

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