MUEP/MPP Program Overview The University of Virginia School of Architecture and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy offer a dual degree program which leads to the completion of the M.U.E.P. and M.P.P. degrees in three years instead of the four years that would be required if each degree were pursued independently. The program is administered by faculty advisors from the School of Architecture and Batten School. Learn more
MPH/MPP Program Overview The University of Virginia’s School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences, and the Batten School offer a dual degree program that leads to the completion of the MPH and MPP degrees in three years instead of the four years that would be required if each degree were pursued independently. The MPP-MPH program is particularly demanding, and unless the student is clearly able to see the applicability of both degrees to future career plans, he or she should not assume that the chance to squeeze one year from a normal five-year sequence is in itself a persuasive rationale for this undertaking. Learn more
PhD/MPP The University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy offer a dual degree program that leads to the completion of a PhD/MPP degrees in five to six years. There are a number of complementarities between the Education School’s PhD program and Batten’s Master of Public Policy program. They both seek high quality students with a commitment to improving policy outcomes, and there is extensive overlap in the coursework in both programs. The goal of a dual PhD/MPP program is to leverage the comparative advantage of both schools toward these mutual interests. Learn more
MBA/MPP The UVA Darden School of Business and Batten School offer a dual degree program that leads to the completion of the MBA and MPP degrees in three years, instead of the four that would be required if each were taken separately. The MBA/MPP program is particularly demanding, and unless the students is clearly able to see the applicability of both degrees to future career plans, he or she should not assume that the chance to squeeze one year from a normal four-year sequence is in itself a persuasive rationale for this undertaking. Learn more