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Even a worldwide pandemic can’t break the Master of Public Service’s 8-year record for 100% co-op employment for all their determined students. 

“Give them a long round of applause and celebrate their accomplishment,” says program director Professor Anindya Sen. “This was the most challenging round of coop matches ever. Quite a few positions were cancelled and delayed. And it was so stressful for the cohort. However, they went with the flow, kept applying, and with some help from our network, coop positions came through and people have employment.”

There has been recent discussion on the existence of several different data gaps across economic, social and political divides — deficits that are left unaddressed at our own peril. But there is another deficit that has, I would argue, gone relatively unnoticed but is no less important: Canada’s skills gap in data analysis.

Director Anindya Sen News Interview with BNN

"Smokes, Smugglers, and Lost Tax Revenues and how should governments respond? That's the question that MPS Program Director Anindya Sen examined in his recent report published by the C.D. Howe Institute.  You can see Professor Sen speak in more detail about this report in various media outlets

Zuhair Zaidi, a student in the Master of Public Service program at Waterloo, has been interested in Canadian politics since the age of 15. Thanks to Waterloo’s flexibility in allowing students to arrange their own jobs, Zaidi landed a co-op work term in the House of Commons this past spring.

On August 23rd 2016, the House of Common’s Special Committee on Electoral Reform heard from a panel of three experts, among them our very own Master of Public Service and University of Waterloo professor Emmett MacFarlane!  We are very proud to say that professor MacFarlane’s work has been issued in the International Political Science Review (IPSR) as well as other public administration publications in recent years.  Drawing evidence from accrued political science knowledge, he has and continues to advise the Canadian government on reform processes for the senate, and on

Earlier this year, Carly Gasparini, MPS Class of 2012, transitioned into the role of General Manager with the Brandon Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation (BNRC). In her Q&A with Lanny Stewart, Carly discusses the important work of the BNRC and her current role in the organization.

Below is an excerpt of her interview featured in the Westman Journal: