Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is Syracuse University's graduate school for public administration and international relations. Maxwell is ranked as the #1 program for public affairs in the country, with five specialties ranked in the top five. It hosts the oldest public administration degree in the United States. The school hosts or co-hosts ten research institutes, encouraging interdisciplinary study and conversation within such broad rubrics as global affairs, domestic policy, conflict and collaboration, environmental studies, aging, public wellness, citizenship, and national security and counterterrorism. Maxwell's centres, institutes and research initiatives: Aging Studies Institute; Autonomous Systems Policy Institute; Campbell Public Affairs Institute; Center for Environmental Policy and Administration; Center for Policy Research; Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media; Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion; Maxwell X Lab; Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs; Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration; and Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law.