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As the educational arm of the prestigious RAND Corporation, the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica is internationally renowned for its rigorous, quantitatively driven graduate programs in public policy analysis and decision-making methodologies. The school's defining characteristic is its immersive on-the-job training model, which pairs students directly with senior researchers to work as paid contributors on high-impact policy projects for government agencies, foundations, and international organizations. Located just steps from the Pacific Ocean, the campus culture is uniquely professional and interdisciplinary, offering a collaborative, non-partisan environment where graduate scholars function as active policy practitioners from day one.
Wikipedia:The RAND School of Public Policy is a private graduate school associated with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and Arlington, Virginia. The school offers doctoral studies in policy analysis and practical experience working on RAND research projects to solve current public policy problems. Its campus is co-located with the RAND Corporation and most of the faculty is drawn from the 950 researchers at RAND.
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