Amplify your ambition.
USC Price offers unique opportunities for senior, emerging, and mid-career professionals to enhance their leadership capabilities and career prospects. Our programs, developed by our nationally prominent faculty in partnership with industry leaders, offer forward-looking knowledge and practical skills essential for today’s competitive public, private, and not-for-profit sector environments. Here, you’ll hone valuable knowledge and skills and make meaningful connections to amplify your ability to reach new service and career objectives.
Degree Programs
Formal academic programs that lead to a recognized degree are designed to be pursued part-time by professionals seeking advancement in their field.
Executive Mastery-Continuing Education
Short-term programs and intensives that offer immediate knowledge and skill enhancement and professional development but do not confer academic credits. Our participants receive a certificate upon completing our Executive Education Forum program.
Our Executive Education Forum engages directly with elected, appointed, and military leaders to deepen their understanding of substantive public policy, augment their ability to leverage and increase existing policy issues and public sector capacity, and foster leadership, all to improve governance and solve public or private problems.
Ongoing training is increasingly important for mid-career professionals who want to expand their networks, gain cutting-edge skills, and drive their careers forward with confidence. As part of our dedication to lifelong learning, we provide exclusive training and networking opportunities to advance careers to the next level.
Genevieve Giuliano
Interim Dean
Distinguished Professor
Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government
Our Programs
Graduates of our executive education programs frequently enjoy significant career advancement and make new connections in their field that lead to exciting new opportunities.
Health Administration
As a graduate degree, the online Executive MHA program at USC can help prepare mid- to senior-level clinical and management professionals to advance into executive management and C-suite level roles.
Local Governance
This intensive, customized suite of certificate programs for two days, week-long, semester-long, or academic year-long program models is the best executive education training for leaders in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.
Defense Security and Deterrence Policy
This 8-month program, in partnership with our USC Viterbi School of Engineering, educates aspiring senior military, government, and industry leaders about the intersection of public policy and engineering, which are too often separate within the complex and growing field of national defense and homeland security.
Public Safety
The USC Safe Communities Institute engages in research, interdisciplinary education, and collaboration to advance sustainable “whole-of-community” public safety strategies, policies, and programs.
Real Estate
The Ross Program in Real Estate is a certificate course established in 1993 to enable members of underrepresented groups and those who invest resources in emerging communities to build a foundation toward leadership in real estate finance and development.
Global Public Policy Management
Our Executive Education program trains policymakers and managers to critically assess and evaluate their challenges upon returning to their home countries with short-term custom certificate programs for foreign government leaders.