The Major in Policy and Management

Peter Schwardmann, Faculty Director
Location: Porter Hall 319F
schwardmann@cmu.edu

Connie Angermeier, Senior Academic Program Manager and Advisor
Location: Porter Hall 208H
cla2@andrew.cmu.edu
Schedule an appointment: https://go.oncehub.com/ConnieAngermeier

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/undergraduate/policy-and-management/index.html

Overview

Prerequisites

All Policy and Management majors must complete mathematics and statistics prerequisites (see below), by the end of the sophomore year.

Curriculum

Core Courses

Capstone

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88-452 is offered in fall, 88-451 in spring

Concentration36 units

Complete at least 36 units (a minimum of four courses) from the following concentrations of courses. Students are required to declare a concentration before their graduating semester, but are not required to choose a concentration when they initially declare (typically in the freshman or sophomore year).  In fact, students are encouraged to take many of the core classes before making their concentration selection so that they can make a well-informed decision. Some courses have additional prerequisites.

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other Heinz courses may also be approved.  Please contact the P&M advisor for more information.

Policy and Management, B.S. Sample Curriculum

This is presented as a recommended plan for completing major requirements.  Students may declare their major as early as the third week of the spring semester in the first year. Students who are planning to attend the Washington Semester Program, to study abroad, to apply for the Heinz Accelerated Masters Program, or to pursue an additional major/minor may have a very different curriculum map and should consult early – and often – with the Policy and Management Academic Advisor.

Students are encouraged to consider the Washington Semester Program as part of their education. Suitable courses may be considered as fulfilling requirements of concentration electives in the major.  Please discuss course selections with the Academic Advisor during the application phase to the program. 

Additional Major

Students who elect Policy and Management as an additional major must fulfill all of the requirements of the Policy and Management major.  For additional majors in Policy and Management, courses taken as concentration electives may not count toward the student's primary major or other program.

Students pursuing Behavioral Economics, Policy, and Organizations with an additional major in Policy and Management may only count 36-202 , 73-102, and 88-251 (and 88-252, if taken in Empirical Core) toward the completion of both majors.

Students pursuing Decision Science with an additional major in Policy and Management may only count 36-202 , 73-102, 88-223 , and 88-251 toward the completion of both majors.

Additional majors cannot count menu electives toward simultaneously fulfilling more than one major or minor. Students who are interested in an additional major in Policy and Management should see the Academic Advisor of the Policy and Management program.