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The Pardee RAND Graduate School is a selective, multidisciplinary doctoral program with a focus on policy analysis and the ways it can shape our world.
We offer a full-time Ph.D. program in policy analysis — the first and largest of its kind in the country. And we’re backed by the brainpower and resources of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
Each year, we welcome 25 exceptional Ph.D. students. The Technology Applications and Implications (Tech) stream is designed to enable and empower you to focus on engaging with complex problems, understanding current and emerging technology, and working in a culture of curiosity and experimentation.
Why Policy Analysis Needs Technologists
Technology advancements continue to impact society at an increasing scope and rate, but most policy processes and analytic approaches remain rooted in 20th century models and capabilities. To move forward in effective and thoughtful ways, the world needs a new generation of policy leaders with deep technological abilities and understanding. The Tech stream is about learning by making and doing, in part through residency in our Tech & Narrative Lab, and complements and interacts with the other streams through workshops, hackathons, experiments, research projects, and on-the-job training.
Financial Benefits
Pardee RAND's program enables students to cover their tuition while receiving a consistent stipend for living expenses each year and graduate debt-free.
Doctoral students receive:
- A full-tuition scholarship for the first year, partial scholarship in the second year, and reduced tuition thereafter
- A research fellowship earned by working on RAND projects of the student's choice
- Generous health insurance and other benefits, including paid parental leave
- Use of a laptop computer
- Support for travel to conferences and to other RAND offices
- Competitively awarded internal dissertation funding
- A paid visit to Pardee RAND for preview weekend in March after acceptance
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- Be available to participate in our full-time combined research-and-study program at RAND’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California
- Have completed a bachelor’s degree; an advanced degree and/or some work experience in the tech sector or related industries is desired
- Demonstrate strong quantitative and technical skills; an ideal candidate will likely have a computer science, engineering, and/or hard science background, or be a tech-minded individual with a social science or humanities background
- Be highly passionate about technology and its role in policy and society; be deeply curious and have a desire to experiment with technology with a goal of making the world a better place
How to Apply
Applications will include:
- Résumé or CV
- Three essays describing your motivations to work in the field of policy analysis
- Three letters of recommendation from academic and/or professional references
- GRE or GMAT scores; TOEFL for some international students
- School transcripts
Application Deadline: January 7, 2020
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