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Policy Challenge Finals
You are invited to attend the finals of this year’s Georgetown Public Policy Challenge , which will be held live the evening of Friday, April 5th. All Georgetown students, faculty, and staff, friends and families are invited to this exciting event where you will hear our finalist teams detail their proposals to address important policy issues in the DC region. Details below:
Georgetown Public Policy Challenge Finals
Friday, April 5th
5:15pm-7:30pm
Copley Formal Lounge (Copley Hall)
*Reception to follow in Old North 205
Class Visits Now Available
Are you living in DC or visiting soon? Sit in on a class to experience what it will be like as a McCourt student. More details and registration can be found below.
Our New Home
The McCourt School will begin welcoming students in our existing graduate programs to the Capitol campus in Summer of 2024.
In 2021, ten of the McCourt School’s affiliated research centers moved to the newly acquired 500 1st Street building.
The opening of 125 E Street NW – which will directly connect to 500 1st – will bring McCourt School students, faculty, research centers, and staff together for the first time since the School’s foundation in 2013.
As the incoming class of 2024, you will be the first ones in our new building! We can’t wait until you see it.
Join our new WhatsApp community!
We are excited to invite you to join our new WhatsApp community, McCourt Admitted Students 2024. Here, you can meet other admitted students and build friendships by connecting in real time through group messaging. Join the Community here and start chatting .
Follow our Instagram Takeovers
Want to know what a day in the life of a McCourt student is like? Follow along with our student Instagram Takeovers (ongoing).
You can also watch a welcome video from some of our current students below:
STEM-certified Programs
Our MPP, MIDP, and MS-DSPP programs are all STEM-certified. If you are an international student on an F-1 visa and you complete any of these three programs, you will be eligible for an OPT extension.
Commitment to Inclusion
The McCourt School of Public Policy aspires to become the most inclusive public policy school in the nation. Inclusivity is a core value at McCourt because public policies are more effective when our political and policy decision makers reflect the perspectives and lived experience of the communities they serve, and being able to work across differences is a fundamental skill we seek to cultivate.
Read the full page on our Commitment to Inclusion, including our initial strategies to achieve this aspiration:
Internship Requirement
McCourt requires a formal internship experience as a program requirement for the MIDP, MPP, and MS-DSPP programs. The McCourt degrees emphasize analytical skills, enabling graduates to be highly effective in designing, analyzing and implementing policy in the US and around the globe. The internship requirement is integral to the student’s academic training at the McCourt School.
The learning objectives of the internship are:
- Increase proficiency in specific public policy disciplines; such as management, statistics, economics, data science, politics, and/or policy-making;
- Apply quantitative, economic, data science, and/or policy analysis concepts and theories to real-world decision-making; and
- Develop and improve policy making skills in communication, quantitative or qualitative reasoning, data or policy analysis, and/or teamwork.
Students can intern at any time during their time at McCourt and are required to have a minimum of 120 hours of work. Students can waive the internship requirement based on prior work or internship experience. Internships are optional for students in the MPM program. For more questions, please contact Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, Alora Hasson (ah1499@georgetown.edu).