The Master of Science in Social Policy (MSSP) is a rigorous, eleven-month, ten-course program that prepares professionals with knowledge and skills to use policy to increase equity, promote justice, and forge social change. In a world experiencing seismic political economic shifts, we are in need of socially-minded and justice-oriented policy professionals able to instill effective, positive change. Policymakers are currently grappling with the dominance of a gaze toward markets for addressing social inequalities and inequities; increasing economic inequality due to the accumulation and movement of global capital; the intensifying rigidity of migration across borders and manufactured fears of those bodies across the border; the continued practices of extraction that is most consequential to natural ecologies, indigenous communities, and the racialized other; growing racial, ethnic, and religious tensions; rapidly shifting social lives due to emergent visual technologies of surveillance; increasing precarity of labor due to automation; and the uncertain shaping of social futures as a result of a global pandemic.
University of Pennsylvania GRE score and admission requirements for graduate programs in Public Administration And Social Service