Word: mpp
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...more than half the students in the two-year Master of Public Policy (MPP) and Master of Public Administration (MPA2) programs chose careers in non-governmental fields. And while non-profit and private jobs have long been popular at the K-school, the number of students going into these fields is on the rise...
Particularly dramatic is the increase in students seeking public service jobs in the non-profit sector. In 1986, only 9 percent of MPP graduates took non-profit jobs; by last year that figure had climbed to 28 percent. In the MPA2 program, the figure climbed from 10 percent in 1986 to 28 percent...
...people here are public-policy oriented--but that doesn't mean they want to end up in a government bureacracy," says Timothy A. Wilkins, a joint MPP-law student...
...going somewhere where our hearts are not really in in it, but we have to pay the loans," says Brian M. Baldwin, who studies in a joint MPP-law degree program. "The problem is that given my own tastes [non-profit] is what I would like to do, but when we come out of these programs we are heavily in debt and that tends to color my thinking...
...could probably see myself working in some agency in the Caribbean or in the U.S." says Steve Riley, a first-year MPP student. "The only drawback would be the level of pay. If you work for a bank, for example, the World Bank, the pay scale is much higher...