Past Events

Over the Holiday Break—Dec. 24, 2018 until Jan. 2, 2019—The University of Texas and the LBJ School of Public Affairs will be officially closed.

Meet the Dean: On Dec. 13, Hear Dean Angela Evans's thoughts on a public affairs education and her vision for the LBJ School.

The LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin invites active-duty service members to apply to study for a master’s degree or Ph.D. in public policy. This webinar will focus on the experience of LBJ students affiliated with the military. This is your chance to ask questions about the application process, curricular details, school-military balance and more.  

The research centers at the LBJ School focus on a range of public policy issues, around which faculty members and students collaborate on interdisciplinary policy research.

The LBJ School is excited to invite you to our Fall Open House Event on Monday, Nov.12! (Class visits and campus tours are on Nov. 13.)  

You want to go to graduate school, but how will you pay for it? As part of a public state school, the LBJ School offers one of the most affordable graduate programs of its kind, along with a number of funding options — including fellowships, graduate research and teaching assistantships, student employment, internship stipends and awards — to help students leave school with no debt.

The LBJ Washington Center will host an Exemplar in Policymaking: Nov. 2 at 9 a.m.: Mark Updegrove, CEO and president of the LBJ Foundation.

The goal of any grad school program is gaining the knowledge and the skills to be successful in the working world — and at LBJ in particular, to go out and succeed in the public policy world. The Office of Career Management at the LBJ School is a centralized office charged with assisting students and alumni with meeting their career goals while making connections between their academic studies and life beyond the university.

The Master of Public Affairs and Master of Global Policy Studies programs form the core of the LBJ School’s mission to train the leaders of the future, combining the academic theory of the classroom with practical, hands-on experience via required internships and Policy Research Projects.

The LBJ Washington Center will host two Exemplars in Policymaking: Martin Frost (D-Texas) and Tom Davis (R-Va.,) former chairs of the Democra