The McCourt School of Public Policy offers several dynamic and flexible mid-career education options for accomplished policy professionals looking to broaden their skill sets. Our ever-expanding offerings include courses customized for individual organizations, short courses, and degrees--all aimed at increasing participants’ effectiveness in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors. For more information on each program, please click on the links below.
Customized Executive Education Programs
Our customized programs are designed to meet your organization’s needs and budget. We give you personalized attention and tailor the format, content, and delivery to your objectives. We offer not-for-credit training in a wide variety of topics:
- international and domestic public policy issue areas;
- Congress and the executive branch;
- leadership and management;
- program evaluation and quantitative methods;
- writing for public policy;
- political organizing and influence;
- and others
Executive Institute Short Courses
The Executive Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy sponsors short courses on a wide variety of topics. These courses are open to the public and last between one and five days. Tuition includes course materials. All courses are taught by full-time faculty or expert practitioners from the field. Students earn continuing education units and a Georgetown certificate of attendance.
Sample courses include:
- How Washington Really Works
- Data Visualization
- Negotiation
- Workplace Conflict Management
- International Program Evaluation
- Fundraising
- Public Sector Management
Degree Programs
Executive Master of Policy Leadership
The McCourt School of Public Policy offers an Executive Master of Policy Leadership. This executive master’s degree is for experienced professionals that helps them hone and enhance their leadership skills in the policymaking arena. The degree addresses executive-level skills.
The Executive Master of Policy Leadership is offered to employers who want to sponsor a cohort of students for an advanced policy leadership degree. Individual enrollment is not available at this time though we do hope to launch such a program in the future.
Certificates
Certificate in Educational Leadership and Management (ELM)
The McCourt School’s Certificate in Educational Leadership and Management (ELM) builds the skills and knowledge that local and state leaders need to address large-scale challenges and bring bold and positive change in technology, human resources, school turnaround efforts, innovation zones, teacher quality reforms, and accountability initiatives. Other education leadership programs focus on innovation in pedagogy. In contrast, the ELM emphasizes the management and leadership skills needed to implement and sustain reforms.
The Certificate in Educational Leadership and Management is designed for district and state managers and leaders involved with budgeting, managing human resources, negotiating contracts, writing rules, applying for and adhering to federal grants, or designing and implementing reform initiatives.
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For questions about McCourt's Executive Education offerings, please contact:
Dr. Erika Falk
Director of Executive Education
202.687.9103
[email protected]