Prepared for success

We offer world-class education and preparation outside as well as inside our classrooms.

Writing Center instructors Beth Chimera, David Morse, and Alex Ralph sit around a conference table

Prepared for success

Best-in-class Writing Center

Our Writing Center's outstanding instructors work with students at every skill level, helping them through every stage of the writing process--from creating a preliminary outline to polishing a final draft.
Read more about our writing center
Nadine Jawad addresses attendees at a celebration of the 100th birthday of Mrs. Betty Ford

Prepared for success

The Ford School Leadership Initiative

We equip talented public policy graduates with the leadership competencies for transformative public service.
Read more about the leadership initiative
Rey Goicochea and Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor

Prepared for success

Hands-on skills development

Students have many opportunities to use what they've learned in the classroom through hands-on, practical policy experiences.
Learn about engaged learning
Ford School DEI Officer Stephanie Sanders leads a community conversation on the works of Ta Nehisi Coates

Prepared for success

Equipped to lead in an increasingly diverse world

We're an inclusive community, and we believe that issues of equity of integral to the study and practice of public policy.
Read more about DEI
Student and staff at the Search Inside Yourself event

Prepared for success

Academic and career supports

Academic and career supports are provided by professional staff, peer mentors, faculty, alumni, and friends of the school.
Read more about supports