The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is the public policy school of Syracuse University. The school conducts research and offers graduate degrees in the social sciences, public administration, and international affairs. The Maxwell School is the oldest public affairs school in the United States. It is regarded as one of the country's most prestigious schools of public policy; U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the Maxwell School as the leading graduate school of public affairs in the United States . The school is named for George Holmes Maxwell, a Syracuse... alumnus and Boston patent attorney who donated $500,000 to the university in 1924 to establish a school which would aim to "to cull from every source those principles, facts, and elements which, combined, make up our rights and duties and our value and distinctiveness as United States citizens". The Maxwell School was dedicated on October 3, 1924, and was the first program to offer a graduate professional degree in public administration.
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