Past Events

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

Interested in speeding up your path to a federal policy career? Take a closer look at the LBJ School’s DC Concentration — an immersive 18-month course of accelerated study and work focused on both domestic and international federal policymaking that gives master’s students the extraordinary opportunity of simultaneously working in the nation’s capital and earning a public policy graduate degree.

The LBJ Foundation honors Julian E. Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and CNN Contributor with the 29th D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on the United States Congress: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society.

What do you want to know about the LBJ experience? Make your list of questions about LBJ’s classes, research opportunities, policy research projects, research centers, specializations, dual-degree options, career services and other offerings and join this webinar to talk about them with Kate Weaver, associate professor of public affairs and associate dean for students.

Take a look at the view of public policy from Capitol Hill. 

The LBJ School’s Ph.D. program has been in place since 1992 and has approximately 35 doctoral students working at various stages of the degree program.