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About Public Policy

Public Policy is the study of how governments identify problems and design, implement, and evaluate the decisions that address them.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted, a quote by Elizabeth Dole, briefly explains the core behind public policy. From a more generic perspective, public policy is a system of laws, regulatory measures, behaviours, and courses of action adopted by the government for the public. Or a set of rules to address issues within the society. Public policies can take years to be implemented and developed and show their outcome. Although technically, public policy existed in society for ages, the official term and its umbrella emerged in the 1960s, encompassing various disciplines like political science, sociology, public administration, and economics. A public policy major allows a graduate to develop, implement and evaluate policy solutions for the problems that the society is facing.

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• Transferable skills across multiple distinct career pathways
• Study in 18+ countries with post-study work rights for international graduates
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