Public policy

[Anonymous]

How is public policy looking these days? Health policy, tech policy, education policy and other cross policy areas? Worth getting a public policy degree? What jobs and careers exist in the field and how much of an impact has AI or will AI have?

[Anonymous]

Some get a MPA or MPP while working and work pays for it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some get a MPA or MPP while working and work pays for it

But what about a bachelor's public policy degree? Useless other than to get a bachelor's degree in something?

[Anonymous]

Duke has an incredible public policy program. The analysis and thinking skills you learn are valuable for many things. Law school, Wall Street, consulting, or actual public policy. I knew a few pre-med but that is very rare.

And you apply to Duke in general then just choose it as your major. No specialized app.

[Anonymous]

I was a public policy major back in the day. Most of us went to law school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some get a MPA or MPP while working and work pays for it

But what about a bachelor's public policy degree? Useless other than to get a bachelor's degree in something?

Pretty much. Some people spend a few years working in campaigns but eventually you reach the age of 25 and you’d like some money and career progression

[Anonymous]

Can get a research assistant job in a think tank if any still exist under T2.0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some get a MPA or MPP while working and work pays for it

But what about a bachelor's public policy degree? Useless other than to get a bachelor's degree in something?

UVA has a very strong undergrad PP program through the Batten school plus a Masters program and a joint masters/PhD program. Those I’ve known who have done undergrad and/or the MPP program tend to go on to law school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some get a MPA or MPP while working and work pays for it

But what about a bachelor's public policy degree? Useless other than to get a bachelor's degree in something?

UVA has a very strong undergrad PP program through the Batten school plus a Masters program and a joint masters/PhD program. Those I’ve known who have done undergrad and/or the MPP program tend to go on to law school

What makes it very strong. It seems to be useless for a degree if students are just going to law school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some get a MPA or MPP while working and work pays for it

But what about a bachelor's public policy degree? Useless other than to get a bachelor's degree in something?

UVA has a very strong undergrad PP program through the Batten school plus a Masters program and a joint masters/PhD program. Those I’ve known who have done undergrad and/or the MPP program tend to go on to law school

What makes it very strong. It seems to be useless for a degree if students are just going to law school.

Exactly. It sounds up there with a History major

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke has an incredible public policy program. The analysis and thinking skills you learn are valuable for many things. Law school, Wall Street, consulting, or actual public policy. I knew a few pre-med but that is very rare.

And you apply to Duke in general then just choose it as your major. No specialized app.

lol

[Anonymous]

It's a great major and one that is increasingly important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a great major and one that is increasingly important.

I will take what no one said ever for $100 Alex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some get a MPA or MPP while working and work pays for it

But what about a bachelor's public policy degree? Useless other than to get a bachelor's degree in something?

UVA has a very strong undergrad PP program through the Batten school plus a Masters program and a joint masters/PhD program. Those I’ve known who have done undergrad and/or the MPP program tend to go on to law school

What makes it very strong. It seems to be useless for a degree if students are just going to law school.

Exactly. It sounds up there with a History major

Yep, History's just absolutely useless unless you want employees able to (1) absorb and investigate vast amounts of information and make sense out of it, and (2) write well. If you don't do either well, you won't need to worry about your undergraduate major or institution.

[Anonymous]

Here we go again with the STEM people saying all the liberal arts degrees are useless.

Uh, someone has to understand how government can work, how business and government operate in tandem, how to train an LLM and so on.

We won't always live in a time when using ones brain is seen as a negative.