Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies is a school of public policy and one of twelve colleges and schools that constitute Georgia State University. Founded in 1996 as the School of Policy Studies, it was renamed in 1999 for civil rights leader Andrew Young. The school offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as graduate certificate programmes, through its Departments of Criminal Justice & Criminology, Economics, and Public Management & Policy, the School of Social Work, and the Urban Studies Institute. Its research centres include the Georgia Health Policy Centre, the Georgia Policy Labs, and the Experimental Economics Centre, along with the Public Finance Research Cluster, which encompasses the Fiscal Research Centre, Centre for State and Local Finance, and International Centre for Public Policy.