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Graduate Open House

UCR Graduate Open House

Join us on Saturday, October 26th to meet with faculty, advisors, and students from our MPP program. Application fee discount & GRE fee raffle!

Salton Sea Summit

Salton Sea Summit

UC Riverside/Palm Desert Campus | October 17-18, 2019

UCR School of Public Policy

UCR School of Public Policy

Solutions for the Region, Solutions for the World

Master of Public Policy Program

Now accepting applications for Fall 2019

UCR Undergraduate Program

Undergraduate Public Policy Program

Now offered by the UCR School of Public Policy

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What Can a Career in Public Affairs, Policy, and Administration Do For You?

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UCR is one of only four campuses with a public policy school in the ten-campus University of California system.

UCR is the only major research university in Inland Southern California to offer a Master of Public Policy (MPP) program.

UCR is the only UC campus to offer an undergraduate program in public policy.

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