Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
is named after former Duke president and
Governor
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of
North Carolina
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Terry Sanford
James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917April 18, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford served as the 65th Governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, was a two-time U.S. pre ...
, who established the university's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs in 1971 as an interdisciplinary program geared toward training future leaders. When the School's current building on Duke's West Campus opened in 1994, the structure was named—and the Institute renamed—in honor of Sanford. The Sanford School offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in
Public Policy
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.
A second building, named for principal benefactor
David Rubenstein
David Mark Rubenstein (born August 11, 1949) is an American billionaire businessman. A former government official and lawyer, he is a co-founder and co-chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group,Duke Center for International Development. Rubenstein Hall had its formal dedication, which included a speech by former
U.S. Secretary of State
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Colin Powell
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on November 4, 2005.
The Institute officially became Duke's tenth school on July 1, 2009, when it was renamed the Sanford School of Public Policy. The current dean of the Sanford School is Judith Kelley.
Academic programs
Undergraduate
Sanford offers an
undergraduate
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major in Public Policy Studies. The undergraduate program was slightly altered starting with the class of 2009. The department also recently instituted several "pathways," or groups of classes focused on one aspect of public policy. One aspect of the program that is unique among Duke's undergraduate majors is the requirement of a public policy-related summer
internship
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.
The Institute also offers two undergraduate certificates: the Child Policy Research Certificate and the Policy
Journalism
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and
Media
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Communication
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** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass el ...
Studies Certificate.
Sanford also runs a study-abroad program at the
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in
Scotland
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. One notable aspect of the fall semester program is a four-day tour of
London
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and its important cultural and political institutions and meetings with members of
Parliament
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.
Graduate
At the graduate level, the School currently offers
Master
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*Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...
of Public Policy and
Master
Master or masters may refer to:
Ranks or titles
* Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans
*Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...
of International Development Policy degrees. It also offers an international Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) degree with the
Nicholas School of the Environment
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and
Duke Kunshan University
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In 2018, Duke Kunshan University welcomed their first inaugural undergraduate class.
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The program offers graduate level concentrations in six areas: Environment and Energy Policy, Health Policy, International Development Policy, National Security and Foreign Policy, Social Policy, and Technology Policy.
The Ph.D program started in the fall of 2007.
Centers and Programs
The following centers and programs are affiliated with the Institute and/or operated by the Institute's faculty and staff.
*The Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy
*The Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
* The Duke Center for International Development
*The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
*The Hart Leadership Program
*The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics
*Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security
*Triangle Institute for Security Studies
*Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change
*The Population, Policy and Aging Research Center (PPARC)
*The Program on Global Health and Technology Access
*The Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism
*The United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values
*The Program on Civil Society (Fleishman Civil Society Fellows)
Rankings
Top ten specialities and overall graduate level public affairs program as ranked by '' U.S. News & World Report'' in 2019:
*3rd in Environmental Policy & Management
*5th in Public-Policy Analysis
*6th in Health Policy & Management
*7th in Social Policy
*27th in Public Finance & Budgeting
*25th in overall graduate level public affairs program