Ph.D.
UNC Public Policy offers the Ph.D. degree to students who aim to contribute new knowledge and analysis on domestic and global policy problems. The Ph.D. in public policy combines core foundations in theory, empirical and normative analysis, and a chosen policy field area. The curriculum is designed to help each doctoral student develop and use appropriate theoretical and analytical approaches to solve problems in policy areas such as education, innovation and entrepreneurship, labor markets, health and social policy, immigration, environment, national security, international development, and global health.
Our Ph.D. program currently hosts approximately thirty students actively pursuing a Ph.D. with a variety of policy interests. UNC Public Policy has developed strengths in a range of social science-based policy research and our graduate students work closely with faculty on policy-relevant research.
The Hammer Fund for the Enrichment of the PhD Curriculum in Public Policy
The Philip and Jane Hammer Fund for the Enrichment of the PhD Curriculum in Public Policy was established in 1991 by Jane R. Hammer. The fund aides in the recruitment and support of exceptional graduate students in the PhD program in public policy. Click here for further information.
Prospects
UNC Public Policy PhD graduates have earned positions in many different areas.
| Arizona State University | North Carolina State University | University of New Mexico |
| Brigham Young University | Saint Augustine’s Unviersity | University of North Carolina |
| Brown University | San Francisco State University | Asheville |
| Duke University | Stony Brook University | University of North Carolina |
| East Tennessee University | Soo Chow University (Taiwan) | Chapel Hill |
| George Mason University | Sungkykunkwon University (Korea) | University of North Carolina |
| Indiana University- Bloomington | Tung Hai University (Taiwan) | Greensboro |
| John Hopkins University | University of Alabama – Huntsville | University of Oregon |
| Leiden University (Netherlands) | University of Albany | University of Pennsylvania |
| National Cung Chong University | University of California – Irvine | University of Southern |
| (Taiwan) | University of Colorado – Denver | California |
| National Open University | University of Denver | Vanderbilt University |
| (Taiwan) | University of Georgia | |
| National University of Singapore | University of Missouri – Columbia |
- Maine Office of Innovation and Science
- National Youth Commission Minister (Taiwan)
- Pennsylvania State Education Association
- United Nations
- UNICEF
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- U.S. Office of National Coordinator for Health IT
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- World Bank
- Abt Associates
- American Institutes for Research
- Brookings Institution
- CEB Global
- Economic Policy Institute
- Environmental Defense Fund
- IMPAQ International
- Innovative Policyworks
- Merck
- RAND
- RTI
- RxAnte
- Scope International
- Social and Scientific Systems, Inc.