<p>So is the Ford School just for graduate students or is that also an undergraduate major? Sounds pretty cool...</p>
<p>There's a new undergraduate major open...It's open starting with the class of 2010 I believe. Look at that website.</p>
<p>it's an undergrad major, i think you transfer to it after you get to michigan though. i know i'm going to penn but my boyfriend is considering going from polisci to ford school... and that's what ive surmised about it from him</p>
<p>Can I transfer into the program from out of Michigan? I'm really interested in the interdisciplinary program.</p>
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The program was very popular when they first announced it for the '10 class. That's why they are not offering it to transfers at the moment. It might change in the future.</p>
<p>It sounds like a great program and the Ford building looks rather impressive.</p>
<p>Argh...I mean I know why the program was popular, and good for Michigan for keeping the program exclusive like it does with Ross.</p>
<p>How is it? How do people like it? Is there good prof-student interaction? Are the classes very difficult (hard curve or the like)?</p>
<p>Also, if one was to get accepted into both, could you get a BBA from Ross and a BA in Public Policy? It seems like they both have similar requirements. You can use one class to fulfill a requirement in two different majors, correct?</p>
<p>Any input is appreciated.</p>
<p>The Public Policy undergrad program is currently only available to upperclassmen (juniors and seniors) at Michigan. I'm not sure if non-Michigan transfers are allowed.</p>
<p>The reason I didn't go the Public Policy program is because you can't major in anything besides Public Policy. You can't do the Ross and Public Policy program at the same time. I believe you can minor in something in LSA though, but I'm not sure. I'm the class of 2010 and I think the class of 2009 was the first who could do this program.
I don't think the program is curved particularly hard and one of their selling points was you get to know other people (students and profs) in Public Policy.</p>
<p>Are you in Ross Christine?</p>
<p>The Public Policy and the BBA actually have no core courses in common. The only courses that coincide are the ECON prerequisites and STATS 350 for most students. Those won't help you get the degrees any faster.</p>
<p>Goodness no. All my potential futures lead me to being relatively poor compared to the average college student.</p>
<p>Hahahaha, that's rather unfortunate. Whatever makes you happy though, right?</p>
<p>Christine is a Math geek if I recall.</p>
<p>Christine, you sound like a lady who prefers to finer things in life. Since you have admitted taking a career path that is not the most lucrative, you might as well go for a sugar dady rather than a cheap boyfriend! ;)</p>
<p>Christine is a math geek no longer. Or at least, as of right now, political science is my double major and was always my main point of interest. Baking cookies for the math geeks is fun, however, even if I got lazy about it. Maybe I should bake cookies for Ross students. =P
Potential jobs as of right now, in a semi-order, include journalism, government/public policy, social work, academia, and education. (I joke that one day I thought long and hard about what jobs I could possibly decide on that required a college/grad education but less financial return than those of all those budding mathematicians I know...)</p>
<p>Don't you get the sense that most of the people do Political Science are doing it as a precursor to law? Is that the case at Michigan too? You don't see that many people who are interested in doing other things like public policy and things like that. It seems usually law or sometimes education.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people in political science want to do law. It may be the biggest group, but probably not a majority. Maybe it's the nature of my activities and classes, but a lot of people I know want to do research and public policy. I also think the nature of political science and political careers allow people to easily lead multiple careers. Law is probably the only guaranteed lucrative and stable job, however. It's a shame that it bores me. I've actually never met a political science student other than myself interested in education. I thought most people interested in education who aren't pursuing some kind of education degree are interested in more traditional subjects like English, math, history, chemistry, and biology.</p>