Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs sits on top of the rankings — awarded by U.S.News & World Report for public affairs. Syracuse University was the first in the nation to offer graduate professional education in public administration, beginning in 1924, and the program has been unwaveringly strong ever since. Sitting alongside public administration is a well-regarded interdisciplinary program in international relations, offering both a graduate professional degree and undergraduate majors. Maxwell’s I.R. master’s program was recently ranked among the nation’s top ten by Foreign Policy magazine.

And, in an arrangement that is unique among major colleges and universities, Maxwell is also home to Syracuse University’s scholarly programs in the social sciences —anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, social science, and sociology. The co-mingling of these scholarly programs with Maxwell’s professional degrees creates rich, compounding benefits for students and faculty members on both sides of the aisle.

That’s not all. Maxwell also provides the faculty and curriculum for Syracuse University undergraduates in the social sciences, enrolled through SU’s College of Arts and Sciences. Liberal-arts undergrads that major, minor, or choose electives in these departments benefit from the same teachers and interdisciplinary vitality as their counterparts in the master’s and Ph.D. programs.