How will you make a difference?The Ford School offers small interdisciplinary policy seminars, individualized support, close relationships with faculty, a broad range of programs and activities, and a policy focus area of your choice.Based in the...
During his freshman year at UM-Dearborn, Neil Nakkash (BA '24) decided to take a gamble and join a policy research team working on issues impacting his ethnic group. Growing up in nearby Oakland County, he had always found politics interesting, so...
A prescription for equityAs the first city-wide experiment of its kind, Rx Kids provides cash payments for new parents—and new promise for eradicating early childhood poverty. Flint's high child poverty rates came into focus nearly 10 years ago when...
In October 2022, students from the Ford School and members of the greater University of Michigan community gathered together to hear “Racial Justice Changemakers”—social justice leaders, artists, and advocates—share their diverse journeys into...
The undergraduate students in PubPol 480: Global Engagement Seminar had waited all semester for Spring Break – but they weren’t packing bathing suits and flip flops. Instead, they packed blazers and dress shoes. They were heading to Washington, D.C....
The Ford School’s latest BA yearbook—sent electronically to students, recent graduates, and their families on June 28—celebrates the undergraduate classes of 2017 and 2018.
The yearbook includes messages from many of the faculty members who have...
The Ford School’s 2015 BA yearbook, which celebrates the undergraduate students who have enriched the Ford School community over the past year, was sent to returning undergraduate students, parents, and freshly-minted alums last week.The digital...
As a global community, we continue to face unprecedented, complex public challenges. Our world needs the efforts of an energetic, committed, creative generation that is prepared to lead. How will you make a difference?Join us for an undergraduate...
Our minor in public policy is a competitive-admissions program designed to make the critical thinking and analytical skills taught at the Ford School available to more Michigan undergraduates.Students enrolled in the minor will learn to design and...
TuitionTuition and fees are established at the university level, and the tuition for Ford School bachelor's students is the same as the tuition charged for all upper-level undergraduate students in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts....
This course provides an introduction to public policy design and analysis using "systematic thinking" from the social sciences and humanities, with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more...
