Welcome to the Public Affairs Program Website. The Program is offered by The Maxwell School (the #1 rated public affairs school in the USA) and the College of Arts and Sciences. It serves undergraduates only through the policy studies major and minor and a range of applied courses. If you are interested in the graduate Public Administration Program, go to http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/pa/.

Read about what some former Policy Studies and Maxwell students have done in Teach For America.

Click here to read an article about doing good in the Policy Studies major.

See what some important people have said about policy studies.

Click here to learn about PAF 101, the gateway course to the policy studies major.