Public Policy Careers
What Can You Do with a Degree in Public Policy?
Graduates of the UMass Boston Public Policy Program hold top-level professional career positions such as:
- Superintendent of Schools, Knoxville County (TN)
- Policy Advisor to a regional office of a federal health agency
- Executive Director of a community organization offering services for Latino immigrants in metro-Boston
- Tenure-track, visiting and adjunct university faculty
- Executive Director of a large, non-profit child-welfare and re-unification agency in Michigan
- Post-doc fellow and environmental consultant at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Regional Capacity Building Director for a national non-profit, health promotion agency
- Senior Project Manager at Jobs for the Future
- Energy Policy Research Analyst
- Health Planner
- Researcher/Community Liaison at a University policy institute
For More on Careers with Public Policy Degrees
The APPAM web site offers additional information on careers for those with a degree in public policy, including:
- Advanced searches for job listings that match criteria
- Email and RSS alerts when new jobs match criteria
- Anonymous resume listings for employers to search throughout the year
For all this and more, please visit www.PublicServiceCareers.org.
