From City Hall to overseas capitals, understanding public finance and budgeting is essential to provide the support to transform ideas into reality. In the Public Finance Administration concentration, you’ll learn the theory and practice of raising public revenue, allocating resources through the budgeting process, and managing public assets and other fiscal resources. Just part of the reason U.S. News & World Report ranked us #1 in this area.
The applied and experiential nature of the advanced courses in this concentration will prepare you well for a variety of positions in government finance and budgeting, management, and applied program and policy analysis.