H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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| Mission | To advance the broad public interest through focused research and outstanding graduate education. |
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| Established | 1968 |
| Official name | The Heinz School of Public Policy And Managment |
| University | Carnegie Mellon University |
| School type | Private |
| Dean | Mark Wessel |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Enrollment | 200 graduate |
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The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management is part of Carnegie Mellon University and is named for the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III.
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History
Richard King Mellon and his wife Constance had long been interested in urban and social issues. In 1965, they sponsored a conference on urban problems, in which they began discussions with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech, (as Carnegie Mellon University was then known) to create a school focused on public affairs. In 1967, Carnegie Mellon President H. Guyford Stever, Richard Cyert, Dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and Professors, William Cooper and Otto Davis met and formed a university-wide committee to discuss creating a school that would train leaders to address complex problems in American urban communities. Davis was asked to draft a proposal to create such a school.
In 1968, William Cooper and Otto Davis presented the final proposal for the School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) to the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The proposal found favor with R. K. Mellon, and he became strongly committed to creating such a school. The R. K. Mellon Foundation sent a proposal to its President, Stever to finance it with an initial grant of $10 million, and on 1 November 1968, President Stever created the School of Urban and Public Affairs.
In 1992, Teresa Heinz (later Teresa Heinz Kerry) donated a large sum of money to the school, which was then renamed in honor of Mrs. Heinz's late husband, Senator H. John Heinz III. Senator Heinz, heir to the H. J. Heinz Company fortune, had been killed when his small private plane crashed a few years before.
Rankings
In the most recent US News and World Report Graduate School rankings, the Heinz School was ranked 8th overall among schools of public affairs. Of the 253 schools of public affairs across the nation that were surveyed, the Heinz School ranked:
- 1st in Information and Technology Management;
- 1st in Criminal Justice Policy and Management;
- 4th in Public Policy Analysis;
- 7th in Environmental Policy and Management;
- 7th in Health Policy and Management.
The school also ranked well in City Management and Urban Policy (14th), Public Finance and Budgeting (16th), Public Management and Administration (16th), and Social Policy (15th).
Areas of study
Presently, the Heinz School has an international reputation for excellence in educational programs and faculty research, and its programs include:
- Information Technology
- Public Policy
- International Policy
- Criminal Justice policy
- Policy Analysis
- Finance
- Health Care policy and management
- Information Systems management
- Several other fields like arts management, entertainment industry management, environmental policy, medical management, and educational technology management.
The school has recently introduced the Master of Science in Information Security Policy and Management. To address the learning needs of individuals and organizations in the service economy, a graduate-level specialization in service management will be offered at the Heinz School, within the Master of Information Systems Management (MISM) program, beginning Spring 2006.