PhD Courses
The PhD program involves two years of full-time course work followed by part-time course work consisting of electives (third year) and dissertation research and writing (fourth year and beyond). Part-time students will finish core courses in three years. Most students should complete the entire program including the dissertation in five to seven years.
PhD Course Requirements
Course requirements include:
- nine interdisciplinary core courses
- five core research and quantitative methods courses
- 24 credits of electives and/or internship work
- 10 dissertation credits
A chart of required courses gives a snapshot of our curriculum.
Our typical course schedule - semester-by-semester for both full-time and part-time students - is also provided.
Course Offerings
We welcome prospective students to visit a class or two! Our Program Administrator will be happy to make the arrangements for you (you may use the e-mail address on bottom of this page to contact him).
*Non-degree students may enroll in elective courses before acceptance in the program. A maximum of six credits (two courses) will then count toward your degree. Please consult the department staff to register. (NB: Non-degree students are not eligble for assistantship aid.)
Spring 2010 elective course offerings (registration begins in late November):
- Advanced Quantitative Methods (pre-req: Statistics I and II)
- Health Care Policy
- Scientific and Political Change
- Qualitative Methods
Public Policy electives and course descriptions.
Learning to Build an Equitable Society
Contact us via e-mail at public.policy@umb.edu for more information on our doctoral program and PhD courses, or see our PhD Program contact page for additional ways to contact us.
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CURRENT PUBLIC POLICY COURSES
fall 2009 and spring 2010 schedules
TESTIMONIALS ABOUT OUR PhD COURSES
“The Public Policy Program at UMass Boston was a wonderful place to be. The coursework was challenging but I also felt that it was a labor of love.”
--Alumna Lee Rosenthal, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Promotion
UTexas-El Paso
“I am a better policy analyst because of the lessons learned in micro-and macro-economics, political foundations, leadership, and organizational management. I am now able to begin to address policy issues from multiple angles from problem definition and stakeholder identification to the development of possible policy solutions”.
-- Charles Ndungu, post-residency student