Capstone Workshops
A Capstone Workshop is a live consulting project with an external client outside of SIPA. Each workshop partners a team of about six graduate students with a faculty advisor. The goal is to provide clients with innovative analysis and practical recommendations while SIPA students gain experience by working on a real-world problem.
A core requirement for the Master of International Affairs (MIA), Master of Public Administration (MPA), Master of Public Administration in Development Practice (MPA-DP), and Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science Policy (MPA-ESP) is that the workshops allow students to put learning into practice. Serving as their culminating educational experience at SIPA, students work in teams of 6-8 students under the guidance of an expert faculty advisor to work on a real-world consultancy project with an external client.
Capstone Workshops
Through SIPA's Capstone Workshops, organizations benefit from the expertise of SIPA students, who have a wide variety of professional and educational backgrounds and who are in a demanding, two-year professional degree program at one of the leading schools of international and public affairs in the world.
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Information for Capstone Students
SIPA Capstone Workshops are available to MIA, MPA and MPA-DP students. Capstone workshops are only offered once each academic year and take place from mid -November through the end of the spring semester.
Information for Capstone Clients
Students from the Masters of International Affairs and Masters of Public Administration degree programs are organized into small consulting teams (generally about six students per team) and assigned a substantive, policy oriented project with an external client.
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