Kennedy School of Government , is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Kennedy School offers master's degrees in public policy , public administration , and international development , four doctoral degrees , and various executive education programs.
It conducts research in subjects relating to politics , government , international affairs , and economics. Kennedy Street in Cambridge. The School is adjacent to the public riverfront John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. Harvard Kennedy School alumni include 21 heads of state or government from around the world. Alumni also include cabinet officials, military leaders, heads of central banks , and legislators.
Congressman, and the first coach of the Harvard Crimson football team. Harvard Kennedy School's shield was designed to express the national purpose of the school and was modeled after the U. The first students at the Graduate School were called Littauer Fellows, participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career Master in Public Administration program.
In , three years following the assassination of U. President and Harvard College alumnus John F. Kennedy , the school was renamed in his honor. In , concurrent with the school's renaming, [ 8 ] the Harvard Institute of Politics was created with Neustadt as its founding director.
Kennedy Jr. Forum, named in honor of John F. By , the faculty, including presidential scholar and adviser Richard Neustadt , a foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School, Graham Allison , Richard Zeckhauser , and others consolidated the school's programs and research centers at the present Harvard Kennedy School campus. The first new building opened on the southern half of the former Eliot Shops site in October In late , the Kennedy School of Government announced that while its official name was not being altered, it was rebranding itself as Harvard Kennedy School effective Fall Kennedy's brother, U.
