INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" is a non-profit graduate-only business school that maintains campuses in Europe, Asia (Singapore), the Middle East, and North America. INSEAD offers a full-time Master of Business Administration, an executive MBA (EMBA), a Master of Finance, a PhD in management, a Master in Management, Business Foundations Post-Graduate degrees, and a variety of executive education programs.
The University of Akureyri was founded in 1987 in the town of Akureyri in the northeastern part of Iceland. It is today a school of health sciences, humanities and social science, and a school of business and science. Over 2000 students attended the university in the autumn semester of 2014, around half of them through flexible learning, making the university the largest provider of distance education in the country. The University of Akureyri coordinates with other Icelandic Universities to operate the University Centre of the Westfjords located in Ísafjörður, which operates two master's degrees, one in Coastal and Marine Management and the other in Marine Innovation. Additionally, The University of Akureyri coordinates with other Nordic Universities for the West Nordic Studies and Polar Law Masters programs.
The Renmin University of China is a national key public research university in Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry and the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is the professional public policy school of Syracuse University, a private research university in Syracuse, New York. The school is organized in 11 academic departments and 13 affiliated research centers and offers coursework in the fields of public administration, international relations, foreign policy, political Science, science and technology policy, social sciences, and economics through its undergraduate (BA) degrees, graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Master of Arts (MA), and PhD degrees.
The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) is an international management school and research institution. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School and uses the Harvard Business School case study teaching methodology. Prof Stephen Fuller of the Harvard Business School was its first president, to be succeeded by another professor from Harvard. It was described by Asiaweek magazine as the best in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of executive education.
The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs is a public policy and planning school at the University of Minnesota, a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is named after Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice President of the United States and presidential candidate. The school is located on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota, which is also home to the University of Minnesota Law School and Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis. The Humphrey School is accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA).
SDA Bocconi School of Management is the graduate business school of Bocconi University. It is the leading School of Management in Italy and also stands among the top-ranked European institutions. SDA Bocconi offers executive, custom and MBA programs, as well as specialized masters, and regularly takes on research projects on commission. The school also offers a doctorate program. SDA Bocconi School of Management also has an offshore presence in Mumbai, India called the SDA Bocconi Asia Center.
The Southwestern University of Finance and Economics is a public research university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The university is affiliated to the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the ministry and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government.
Central University of Finance and Economics, is a national public research university located in Beijing, China.
A public policy school is typically a university program that teaches students policy analysis, program evaluation, policy studies, public policy, political economy, urban planning, public administration, international relations, security studies, nonprofit studies-nonprofit management, political science, urban studies, intelligence studies, global studies, emergency management, public affairs and/or public management. Public policy schools typically train students in two streams. The more practical stream treats the master's degree as a terminal degree, which trains students to work as policy analysts or practitioners in governments, government relations, think tanks, and consulting firms. A more theoretical stream aims to train students who are aiming to go on to complete doctoral studies, with the goal of becoming professors of public policy, political science in general, or researchers.
The Maryland School of Public Policy is one of 14 schools at the University of Maryland, College Park. The school is located inside the Capital Beltway and ranks 16th nationally for schools of public policy according to U.S. News & World Report (2012).
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) is one of 17 schools comprising the University of Pittsburgh. Founded in 1957 to study national and international public administration, GSPIA prides itself on its "Local to Global" distinction. As of 2018, it is one of only two policy schools with programs in the top 20 for both International Relations and City Management and Urban Policy. The former mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, is a GSPIA alumnus.
The McCourt School of Public Policy is one of ten constituent schools of Georgetown University. The McCourt School offers master's degrees in public policy, international development policy, policy management, data science for public policy, and policy leadership as well as administers several professional certificate programs and houses fifteen affiliated research centers. The McCourt School has twenty-one full-time faculty members, ten visiting faculty members, more than one-hundred adjunct faculty members and approximately 450 enrolled students across the various degree and executive education programs.
The Schar School of Policy and Government (SSPG), formerly known as the George Mason University School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs (SPGIA), is the public policy school of George Mason University headquartered in Arlington, Virginia roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Washington, D.C., with a satellite campus in suburban Fairfax County, Virginia. Established as Northern Virginia's first public policy school, the constituent college offers bachelor's-level undergraduate as well as postgraduate degrees in political science and its specific sub-fields such as international relations, public policy, public administration, international security, and urban studies along with specialized postgraduate education through graduate certificates, master's, and doctoral degree programs in fields such as biodefense, international commerce, homeland security, emergency management, counterterrorism, illicit trade analysis, organization development, and knowledge management as well as executive education programs with students eventually choosing one or two degree programs to join, but having the option of taking elective courses from across several sub-fields at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. While it primarily educates and conducts research in subjects related to politics, government, international affairs, and public policy-related economics, as well as the study of regional issues affecting the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, the school is home to several prominent education programs (courses), centers, research institutes, and think tanks dealing with security studies, counterterrorism, transportation policy, nonprofit management, energy, infrastructure, and the environment including the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security, the Center for Security Policy Studies, Center for Transportation Public-Private Partnership Policy, Center on Nonprofits, Philanthropy, and Social Enterprise, the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), and the Center for Energy Science and Policy; the School of Policy and Government also cooperates with the Antonin Scalia Law School’s National Security Institute in conducting research around legal issues pertaining to national security. The school is also the psephology partner of The Washington Post, collaborating on electoral polling and analysis for the paper since 2016, the two hold an A+ rating for historical accuracy and methodology in polling from FiveThirtyEight.
Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, is the business school of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The school offers undergraduate, master, doctoral, and many executive education programs, with a total enrollment of more than 3,000 students.
The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, previously known as School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD), is the public policy school of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles & Sacramento, California. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs, including a doctoral program and several professional and executive master's degree programs. USC Price also offers the Master of Public Administration program at a campus in Sacramento.
The Bush School of Government and Public Service is an undergraduate and graduate college of Texas A&M University founded in 1997 under former US President George H. W. Bush's philosophy that "public service is a noble calling." Since then, the Bush School has continued to reflect that notion in curriculum, research, and student experience and has become a leading international affairs, political science, and public affairs institution.
The Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) is an interuniversity research institute and postgraduate education center located in Barcelona, established in 2004 as a joint initiative between the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs and five universities in the Barcelona metropolitan area, as a center of excellence in international studies. The President of the Institute is Narcís Serra, former Minister of Defense and former Vice President of Spain, and the Director is Jacint Jordana, Professor of Political Science at the Pompeu Fabra University.
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS) (Chinese: 清华大学国际深圳研究生院) is a public university established by Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen Municipal Government as a joint venture in 2001. It is located in the University Town of Shenzhen, surrounded by Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen.
Xue Lan is a Chinese public policy expert. He is a Cheung Kong Distinguished Chair Professor and the Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, where he also serves as the Director of the Institute for AI International Governance and Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals. He is noted for both his positions on many research and educational councils as well as his work in global governance, crisis management, and science, technology and innovation policy. He serves on the editorial board of many international and domestic journals. He also frequently consults for the central and local governments in China and governments and international organizations abroad.
