The Program Evaluation field is a research concentration within the Public Administration and Management field and is designed for Ph.D. students who wish to develop both quantitative and qualitative research skills that may be applied to analyze and assess the performance of public and nonprofit programs. Students will be exposed to research methods from multiple disciplines to prepare them for program evaluation and performance auditing professionals.
General Examination Core
PPPA 6016: Public and Nonprofit Program Evaluation
PPPA 8164: Seminar on Program Evaluation
Field Electives
Students are required to take four of the following courses:
ANTH 6331: Research Methods in Development Anthropology
PPPA 6015: Benefit-Cost Analysis
ECON 8375: Econometrics I: Introduction
ECON 8376: Econometrics II: Simultaneous Equation Models
EDUC 8122: Qualitative Research Methods DNSC 6275: Advanced Statistical Modeling and Analysis
DNSC 6276: Exploratory and Multivariate Data Analysis
SOC 6232: Qualitative Methodology: Doing Field Research
STAT 8265: Multivariate Analysis
STAT 8266: Topics in Multivariate Analysis
STAT 8281: Advanced Time Series Analysis
STAT 6278-8288: Modern Theory of Sample Surveys
STAT 6291: Methods of Demographic Analysis
