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The Price School of Public Policy and the USC Gould School of Law offer a dual degree that enables qualified students to earn both a Juris Doctor and a Master of Public Policy in approximately four years of study.

The dual degree allows students to acquire a blend of the analytic skills of public policy and an understanding of legal institutions and processes. This combination of knowledge is well suited for law students who want to affect the policy-making process and craft legislation to aid in the achievement of public policy goals. It is equally appropriate for prospective policy analysts who are interested in law and public policy.

Students must apply to, and be accepted by, both schools. They may be accepted to the dual degree at the time of their acceptance to the law school or at the beginning of their second year of law school. Dual degree students spend the first year of the program completing the required first year of law school. The remaining units of law school courses and the required 36 units of core MPP courses are taken by students in the second through fourth years.

Students are required to complete 114 units of course work, 78 units in the law school and 36 units in the Price School of Public Policy. To earn the JD, all students (including dual degree students) must complete 35 numerically graded law units at USC after the first year. The associate dean may make exceptions to this rule for students enrolled in law school honor programs. In addition, the MPP program has a statistics prerequisite.

Required MPP Courses

The required MPP courses are

PPD 503 Economics for Public Policy Units: 4
PPD 554 Foundations of Policy Analysis Units: 4
PPD 555 Public Policy Formulation and Implementation Units: 4
PPD 558 Multivariate Statistical Analysis Units: 4
PPD 560 Methods for Policy Analysis Units: 4
PPD 561a Policy Analysis Practicum Units: 1
PPD 561b Policy Analysis Practicum Units: 3

Management Elective

4 units of a management elective

PPD 541 Public Financial Management and Budgeting Units: 4
PPD 545 Public and Nonprofit Organizational Behavior Units: 4
PPD 654 Information Technology Management in the Public Sector Units: 4
PPD 656 Political Management: Theory and Applied Techniques Units: 4
PPD 662 Intergovernmental Management: State Perspective Units: 4
PPD 673 Strategic Planning in the Public Sector Units: 4
PPD 675 Nonprofit Management and Leadership Units: 4
PPD 690 Alternative Dispute Resolution Units: 4
PPDE 645 Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations Units: 4

Analytic Elective

and 8 units of an analytic elective

COMM 650 Survey Construction and Validation Units: 4
PPD 542 Policy and Program Evaluation Units: 4
PPD 587 Risk Analysis Units: 4
PPD 647 Finance of the Public Sector Units: 4
PPDE 660 Environmental Policy Design and Analysis Units: 4
PPDE 661 Methods for Equity Analysis Units: 4
PPDE 636 Urban Spatial Ethnography and Critical Cartography Units: 4
PPDE 665 Economic Impact Analysis: Methods and Applications Units: 2
PPDE 668 Applied Econometrics for Program Evaluation Units: 4
SSCI 581 Concepts for Spatial Thinking Units: 4