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President Johnson addresses the LBJ School on December 4, 1972
About the LBJ School
The LBJ School of Public Affairs, a graduate component of The University of Texas at Austin, offers professional training in public policy analysis and administration for students interested in pursuing careers in government and public affairs-related areas of the private and nonprofit sectors. The LBJ School has a proud tradition of commitment to public service in its highest sense: service aimed at improving the human condition.
Our degree programs include a Masters of Public Affairs (M.P.Aff), a mid-career M.P.Aff sequence, thirteen M.P.Aff dual degree programs, a Masters of Global Policy Studies, six MGPS dual degree programs and a Ph.D. in Public Policy.
The LBJ School's faculty members represent a variety of academic disciplines, ranging from political science and economics to engineering and community and regional planning. The curriculum combines coursework in political economics, public financial management, and analytic methods with a practical application sequence that includes client-oriented policy research projects and agency internships.
Mission
To develop leaders and ideas that will help our state, the nation and the international community address critical public policy challenges in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world.
Executive Officers
Admiral B. R. Inman, U. S. Navy, (Ret.), Interim Dean
Robert Wilson, Associate Dean for Academics
Jeffery Patterson, Assistant Dean for Administration
Susan Binford, Assistant Dean for Communications
Barry Bales, Assistant Dean for Professional Development
Ken Matwiczak, Graduate Adviser (M.P.Aff)
Eugene Gholz, Graduate Adviser (MGPS)
Chandler Stolp, Graduate Adviser (Ph.D.)
LBJ School Profile
The LBJ School has graduated 3,017 students since its first inaugural class of 1972, as well as 37 Ph.D. students since 1996. Student enrollment for 2008-2009 stands at 339 students, 310 are Master candidates, 55 of which are in dual degree programs, and 29 in the Ph.D. program. We have an ethnically and culturally diverse student body. Fifty-eight percent are Texas residents, while 42 percent come from across the country and globe, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, and Uganda. Our students represent a diversity of academic disciplines, from Political Science and Economics to History and Mexican-American Studies.
Faculty Profile
The LBJ School boasts a distinguished faculty of 35 Permanent professors and more than a dozen extended and visiting faculty. Their areas of instruction and research run the gamut of public affairs policy topics, including international affairs, health and social programs, education and labor, urban affairs and administration, nonprofit management, economics, ethical leadership, U.S.-Mexico border issues, environment, transportation, and global technology and trade policy.
The faculty also represent a broad range of professional experience, with a former U.S. Secretary of Labor (Ray Marshall), former Deputy National Security Adviser (James Steinberg), Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (Edwin Dorn), a past Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (Bobby R. Inman), and a State Representative (Sherri Greenberg).
Alumni Profile
The school has graduated 3,017 students since its first class of 1972, as well as a total of 37 Phd graduates since 1996. Alumni of the LBJ School have made their marks in a number of public policy and public affairs fields. Some 48 percent of our graduates enter the public service, with 37 percent taking positions in the private sector and 15 percent in nonprofit organizations. Some of our alumni include Bill Owens, former Governor of Colorado; Rodney Ellis, Texas State Senator; Mee Moua, Minnesota State Senator; Diana Guzman Cummings, former Llano County Treasurer; David Nielsen, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Albert Hawkins, Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner; and Ken Apfel, former U.S. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
More Information
Media guide to faculty experts
LBJ School Record Online (newsletter)
Institutional Documents
Addendum to the 2005 NASPAA Self-Study Report: Ray Marshall Center Activities
A Review of Scholarship, Policy Impacts, Contributions to UT Austin, and Alumni Careers 1999-2004
