Office of Admissions

We hope you are getting excited to meet your future classmates here at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. We’d like to share a little about your incoming class. While we’ll share more detailed information once classes begin, below are a few pieces of information we think you’ll find interesting:

  • Your classmates come from 49 different countries.
  • Your peers also have attended many well-known undergraduate schools, including:
    • U.S.—Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Emory University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, University of California Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University, Yale University  
    • International— Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo De Mexico, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, University of Delhi, Peking University, Tsinghua University
  • More than 30 of your incoming classmates have an AmeriCorps military, Peace Corps, or Teach for America background.
    • Meet Ronald Prillwitz, MPP Class of 2022, who served as an Air Force Intelligence Analyst and Counterterrorism Manager.
    • Meet Francisco Haded, MPP Class of 2022, who an pursued an internship with Americorps in the Illinois Justice Corps program, helping low-income immigrant families seek pro bono legal aid and offering translation services.
    • Meet Nelson Puc, MPP Class of 2021, former teacher whose experience working for government in Quintana Roo inspired him to pursue his MPP to change educational outcomes in Mexico.
    • Read more profiles of your future classmates here.

We look forward to welcoming you as classes start this fall!

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