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95%
of MPA graduates in the class of 2024 secured full-time employment within nine months of graduation.
73.68%
of MPA internships are paid and have an average payrate of $20.88/hour.
90%
of students who graduated between 2020-2024 secured employment within 6 months of graduation.
83%
of NYS Assembly Graduate Interns were Rockefeller College students in 2024.
#5
Information & Technology Management graduate specialization in the nation.
Nationally Ranked MPA
U.S. News & World Report ranks the MPA program at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy 27th in the country out of 268 public affairs programs.
Within the field of public affairs, Rockefeller is ranked in the following specialties:
- 5th in Information and Technology Management
- 7th in Homeland Security and Emergency Management
- 17th in Public Management and Leadership
- 18th in Local Government Management
- 21st in Nonprofit Management
- 31st in Public Policy Analysis
College News
From student to professor: How Rockefeller is shaping the next generation
The mentorship and interdisciplinary approach at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy made all the difference for Soyun Jeong.
“Rockefeller allows students to learn across public administration, public policy and political science, and that intersectionality helped me expand my academic horizons in meaningful ways,” Jeong said.
Rockefeller students lead the university's Student Association
Rockefeller College has full representation at the University at Albany Student Association.
Lauren Ennis: Seeing Possibility Beyond Sight
Through setbacks, reflection, and courage, former UAlbany's Center for Women in Government & Civil Society Fellow and current consultant specializing in disability advocacy and workforce equity, Lauren Ennis, has learned to transform vulnerability into vision.
Constitution Day Essay Contest winners revealed
Organized by the UAlbany Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment and Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, the essay contest has been running as part of the university’s Constitution Day celebrations for several years. This year’s prompt asked students if they would change the Preamble if they were writing it today.
Alumni Spotlight: Lucila Zamboni, director of the Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit
Early on in her career with Argentina’s Ministry of Health, Lucila Zamboni was deployed to two viral outbreaks, dengue fever and then H1N1 in 2009.
“That exposed me to epidemiology and communicable disease and emergencies, and I was mind blown,” Zamboni said.
Those experiences inspired her to study public administration and policy at Rockefeller College, where she received her PhD in 2017.
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