Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

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Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in February 2014
Type	Public
Established	1970
Parent institution	University of Texas at Austin
Accreditation	APSIA
Academic affiliation	TPC
Endowment	$43.5 million (December 31, 2015)[1] + $157 million in the LBJ Foundation[2]
Dean	JR DeShazo
Academic staff	96[3][4]
Students	317 (Spring 2014) (215 MPAff, 102 MGPS)[5]
Doctoral students	35[6]
Location	Austin , Texas , United States 30.2857, −97.7286
Website	www.utexas.edu/lbj

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (or LBJ School of Public Affairs) is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970. The school offers training in public policy analysis and administration in government and public affairs-related areas of the private and nonprofit sectors. Degree programs include a Master of Public Affairs (MPAff), a mid-career MPAff sequence, 16 MPAff dual degree programs,^[7] a Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS), eight MGPS dual degree programs,^[8] an Executive Master of Public Leadership,^[9] and a Ph.D. in public policy.^[10]