Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (commonly known as the Maxwell School) is the public policy school of Syracuse University. The school conducts research and offers graduate degrees in the social sciences, public administration, and international affairs. The Maxwell School is the oldest public affairs school in the United States, and is widely regarded as one of the country's most prestigious schools of public policy. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the Maxwell School as the leading graduate school of public affairs in the United States. The school is named for George Holmes Maxwell, a Syracuse alumnus and Boston patent attorney who donated $500,000 to the university in 1924 to establish a school which...