Behavioral Science for Public Policy Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Overview

The Behavioral Science for Public Policy course from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University aims to train new profiles, which meet growing public policy needs: the need to understand populations, their preferences, their anticipations, their opinions, their reasonings, their behaviors, the influence that individuals can exert on one another, the biases that can affect their judgments or the collective phenomena that emerge from their multiple interactions.

The undergraduate degree as at the forefront of a recent international trend, including at some of the world’s most renowned universities, of developing similarly oriented programs.

Understanding these phenomena is central to policy making in the fields of education, sustainable development, public communication, access to employment or health, local development, environment, internal or international security, regulation of information on social networks, political communication, voting or the participation of populations in public policies.

Career opportunities:

This undergraduate degree is intended to train a new kind of leaders, with skills that are highly sought after on the job market today. The skills acquired in this program lead to executive/ technician jobs in the analysis of data collected from populations, in the public sector (administrations, ministries, local authorities) as well as in the private sector, both nationally and locally.