" To serve our Nation by educating US and allied military officers as well as defense civilians in defense-focused business and public policy, by conducting research in defense management and public policy, and by providing intellectual resources for leaders and organizations concerned with defense business management practices and policies."

We pursue our vision and perform our mission through graduate education, research, and professional service.

• In Education: Through resident and distance learning degree and non-degree programs, we develop students' abilities to analyze, think critically, and take intelligent actions so they can more effectively carry out their future professional responsibilities to manage organizations, resources, people, and programs in complex, sometimes life-threatening environments.

• In Research: Conduct research, using the scholarships of discovery, application, integration, or teaching, that supports defense enterprise decision-making, problem solving, and policy setting; improves business management processes and practices; contributes knowledge to academic disciplines via dissemination in high-quality refereed research journals or suitable practitioner-oriented journals; and advances the development of graduate education.

• In Professional Service: Provide professional expertise that advances knowledge and business management within GSBPP, NPS, the Department of Navy, the Department of Defense, and other government agencies, as well as in our professional and academic organizations.

GSBPP Faculty

The integrated civilian and military faculty of GSBPP have a clear focus on defense organizations, system applications and instruction supported by extensive defense-oriented research. As the leading graduate level business school offering degree programs uniquely tailored to the defense community, GSBPP provides high quality management education to a new generation of military and civilian leadership.

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Accreditations

The Graduate School of Business & Public Policy has the distinction of being one of only a few institutions in the world to have its graduate management programs accredited by both the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the premier accrediting association for schools of business, and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), the premier accrediting association for schools of public administration.

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Welcome to the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP) website.

GSBPP is a unique academic institution with strong ties to business management and public policy. Current graduate students include US and allied military officers and defense sector civilians from all service branches.  After graduating from GSBPP, alum fill jobs managing the business of defense, setting defense policy, and providing defense sector administration.  We prepare our students through a variety of resident and distributed learning programs in several different graduate degree programs.  All of our instructional programs are designed with a strong national security orientation and strike a delicate balance between business management and public policy/public administration.

Complementing our educational mission, GSBPP maintains a robust scholarship program.  Scholarship supports graduate education by informing faculty members about recent developments in their academic fields (maintaining their currency), as well as recent defense and national security sector applications.  GSBPP students are integrated into our research through their class work and, more particularly, their capstone thesis or project research.  GSBPP’s scholarship mission synergistically advances our academic disciplines and national security sector practice, supports faculty development, and enhances graduate student education.

In a speech on 8 May 2010 at the Eisenhower Library, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates outlined a management challenge for the DoD in FY 2012.

“…as the Defense Department begins the process of preparing next year’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget request …The goal is to cut our overhead costs and to transfer those savings to force structure and modernization within the programmed budget. In other words, to convert sufficient “tail” to “tooth” to provide the equivalent of roughly two to three percent real growth …. Simply taking a few percent off the top of everything on a one-time basis will not do.”

The Graduate School of Business & Public Policy is uniquely positioned to help improve defense business practices and administration, as demanded by Secretary Gates.  Our scholarship informs current decision makers and improves management procedures and policies.  Our instruction prepares the next generation of defense sector leaders to analyze and think critically so that they can effectively manage organizations, resources, people, and programs in complex, sometimes life-threatening environments.  We are proud of our contribution to the US and allied defense sectors and US national security.

Please let us know how we can be of assistance.

Sincerely,

Dr. William R. Gates, Dean