Economic Research: Pardee Rand Graduate School

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Pardee Rand Graduate School

The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS) is a private, higher-education institution that offers doctoral studies in policy analysis and practical experience working on RAND research projects to solve current public policy problems. Its campus is co-located with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research institution inSanta Monica, California. Most of the faculty is drawn from the 950 researchers at RAND.[1] The 2011-12 student body includes approximately 100 men and women from more than 20 countries around the world.[2]The school was founded in 1970 as the RAND Graduate Institute (RGI).[3] The name of the school has been changed twice: in 1987, RGI became the RAND Graduate School. In 2004, the present name was adopted to honor the contributions of Frederick S. Pardee, a former RAND researcher and philanthropist.[4]