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The spring 2021 semester begins Jan. 11. The first week of the semester (Jan. 11-15) will be a "Reading, Reviewing, and Reflecting Period." Online courses will begin Jan. 19. In-person courses will begin Jan. 25.

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Featured News

  • Capitol mob wasn’t just angry white men – there were angry white women as well

    Jan 22, 2021

  • MSU Political Science faculty discuss the Jan. 6 events at the U.S. Capitol

    Jan 18, 2021

  • MGSP Announces First Scholarship Winners

    Jan 13, 2021

  • MSU PLS PhD candidate Zuhaib Mahmood receives an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

    Dec 4, 2020

  • Professor Emertius Michael Bratton grows fellowship to support work in Africa

    Nov 24, 2020

Featured Events

  • Jan 22 2021

    The Commando Effect: The Impact of Gender on Misconduct among Security Force Personnel using Experimental Survey Evidence from Four Countries

  • Jan 24 2021

    Symposium on Continuity and Change in Political Culture, Israel and Beyond

  • Jan 29 2021

    Minority Politics/Comparative Politics Speaker: Jóhanna Birnir

  • Feb 12 2021

    Picturing Atrocity: Visual Representation of ISIS in Arabic Political Cartoons

  • Mar 26 2021

    CREW + Methods Workshop present a Qualitative Methods/Mixed Methods Workshop

Master of Public Policy Program

Our goal is to give our students the analytic and practical tools to be leaders in their policy careers.

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PLS Class of 2020 Online Yearbook

While this online celebration in no way can replace a traditional commencement, it gives us a space to highlight these students and their accomplishments.

Class of 2020
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