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The Wilder School ranks among the top 50 of the nation's best graduate public affairs program—moving up 12 places to No. 44 in the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings! Read more.

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April 18, 2018

Wilder School Honors Outstanding Students and Faculty

April 16, 2018

VCU Wilder School, Virginia Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to Host School Safety Forum

March 29, 2018

2018 Plan-Off! Offers Two Days of Activities

Julianne Sloskey, a Wilder School student and exchange participant in the VCU Partnership with Rabdan Academy, outside the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

April 12, 2018

Rabdan Academy Offers Unique UAE Study Abroad Experience

(Top) Joseph Costello, president of Friends of the Pump House and a 2017 graduate of the Wilder School's Master of Urban and Regional Planning program, coordinates volunteers at a recent cleanup. (Middle) The Pump House is a grand example of Gothic Revival architecture. (Bottom) Lyn Lanier,

April 4, 2018

Wilder School Students, Graduates Leading Effort to Restore Pump House

Image of five gold stars.

March 21, 2018

Wilder School Moves Up in National Rankings

Top right: Zach Villegas with Del. R. Steven Landes. Bottom right: Elizabeth Dexter with legislative assistant Janet Muldoon. Dexter, a junior majoring in criminal justice and homeland security and emergency preparedness, interned in the office of Senate Democratic Leader Dick Saslaw.

March 22, 2018

Legislative Program Gives Students a Leg-up on the Future

Wilder School M.P.A. Student Maya Simpkins (middle), who won the Phillips G. Davies Graduate Student Presentation Award at the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Ethnic Studies, stands with Ravi Perry, Ph.D. (right), chair of the VCU Political Science Department and conference chair, and Julia Jordan-Zachery, president of AES.

March 12, 2018

Wilder School Student Wins Prestigious Award

(Top) Wilder School students study a tombstone. (Middle) Assistant Professor Kathryn Howell, Ph.D., and students look to see what Evergreen Cemetery Caretaker Ted Maris-Wolf is uncovering. (Below) Wilder School students watch their steps as they walk through the cemetery's vine-clogged paths.

March 7, 2018

Wilder School Students Help Restore the Past, Plan for Future

June 8, 2017

The Latest News from the Wilder School Faculty

Governor L. Douglas Wilder, the recipient of the 2018 Gloria Hobson Nordin Social Equity Award, stands in front of Virginia's state capitol.

March 2, 2018

Wilder School to Mount Impressive Showing at National Conference

February 22, 2018

Criminal Justice Program Represented at Academy Meeting

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Programs

Criminal justice

Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

Public Administration

Public policy and administration

Urban and Regional Studies/Planning