Career List
Public Administration & Policy Majors
The following is a sampling of employers who have recently recruited graduates of our Master of Public Administration & Policy (MPA) program:
Federal
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Georgia headquarters)
- U.S. Department of Education (D.C. office)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Virginia office, Georgia office)
- U.S. Dept. of Labor (Philadelphia, PA office)
- Fish and Wildlife Services (Virginia office)
- General Accounting Office (DC office)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (through the Presidential Management Fellows program) (DC office)
- Social Security Administration (Georgia office)
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
- Central Intelligence Agency
State
- Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, Performance Audits Operations Division
- Georgia Department of Industry, Trade, & Tourism
- Georgia Emergency Management Agency
- The University of Georgia
- Florida Legislature, Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
- Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration
Local
- Athens Downtown Development Authority
- City of Suwanee (Georgia)
- City of Las Vegas (Nevada)
- Gwinnett County Public Schools
- Gwinnett County Senior Services
- Jackson County Government
- Middle Georgia Regional Development Center
- Capital City Fellows Program (Washington , D.C.)
Non Profit
- Chief Executives Organization (Washington , DC)
- Georgia 4-H Foundation
- Hope Haven of Northeast Georgia
- Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School , Director of Summer Programs/Theater Manager
- United Way of Greenville County , (Greenville , SC)
- Government Consulting
- KPMG, LLP (DC office)
- BearingPoint (Texas office)
For more information, please contact Lisa Sperling, MPA Program Specialist, at (706) 542-9583 or send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
International Affairs / Political Science Majors
The following is a sampling of employers and graduate schools who have hired or recruited graduates with a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs and/or Political Science :
Banking/Business
- Alaska Airlines
- American Promotions
- Bank of America
- BB& T
- Coca-Cola
- Georgia Power
- GMAC
- IBM
- Invesco
- Procter & Gamble
- SunTrust Bank
- Wachovia
Consulting
- Accenture
- Deloitte & Touche
- Ernst & Young
Graduate/Law Schools
- Georgetown University
- University of Georgia
- Georgia State University
- Harvard University
- University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
- Stanford University
- University of Texas—Austin
- University of Virginia
- College of William and Mary
Law
- Alston & Bird
- American Arbitration
- Fortson, Bentley & Griffin
- Law schools: UGA
Nonprofit
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- American Pork Association
- Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme
- Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
- National Rifle Association
- Teach for America
Government/Politics
- U.S. Air Force
- U.S. Army
- Athens-Clarke County
- Atlanta Police Department
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Center for International Trade & Security (CITS)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Cobb County
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Congress/Senate
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- General Accounting Office
- Georgia General Assembly
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna , Austria)
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Los Alamos National Lab
- U.S. Marine Corps
- New York City Department of Education
- U.S. Peace Corps
Media
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Albany Magazine and Publishing
- CNN
- Katz Media Group
- U.S. News Wire
