This is a service for my students (or anyone else who might be interested, or else why would I post it here?). Students often ask me what sorts of jobs there are in applying the principles covered in my Policy-Making Processes course, in which students are trained to “read” a political system. There was a series at Slate in early 2004 that is directly related to this question–a weeklong journal about analysts at the Eurasia Group.
The author of the Slate journal has a Ph.D. But I am fairly confident (though I admit as yet I don’t have direct evidence) that well trained Masters students (such as those with MPIAs, especially in our Public Policy track [PDF]) are indeed qualified for jobs of this sort–in fact, I am convinced that we train people better for this kind of career than do most Ph.D. programs.
$4898.00 for full-time graduate study? Man! I should have applied at UCSD rather than CGU and USC. Geez, what was I thinking?
Oh, yeah! That my wife was going to film school at SC.
Seed planted by Christian Johnson — 04 January 2006 @ 12:03
Yes, PMP can be a job! I can attest to that. I, unfortuntately,
had to learn PMP the hard way–before I came to IRPS! I am 100% sure that my job performance would have been better if I had taken it before I had any sort of professional career. Oh well, having learned PMP the hard way certainly helped my grade in PMP.
Seed planted by Nina Merchant — 21 January 2006 @ 17:16