Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University

The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University is one of the nation\'s leading schools of public policy, offering undergraduate, master\'s, and doctoral degrees in public policy and international development policy. Terry Sanford, then president of Duke University, and also the former Governor of North Carolina (1961-65) and United States Senator (1987-1993), established the school in 1972 as the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs. In 2009 it became Duke\'s tenth school.

Sanford\'s goals were to educate future leaders, to connect research to practice, and to improve the quality of public policymaking. Sanford urged students to set \"outrageous ambitions\"— a call to action remains at the core of the school\'s identity. Sanford graduates bring a creative, entrepreneurial approach to problem solving, along with quantitative and qualitative analytic skills and the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to craft policy solutions. They build careers in government, in business and in the nonprofit sector.