Financial Aid
Financial Aid Overview
Obtaining a graduate degree is a long-term personal investment. Please use the following pages to explore funding opportunities. Our counselors are available to guide you through this process. They are experts in designing financial aid packages that meet your needs. As many of our students customize their degree programs, we will personalize your financial aid experience.
Career Resources
Thriving in your career requires patience, commitment, and integrity. You must 1) choose a personal career path and 2) market yourself to a network of peers, alumni, and professionals. Whether you're a student or alumni, our resources, customized advising services, and workshops will support you throughout the career exploration process.
What is Development Project Management?
Development is the process of finding creative solutions to chronic problems of hunger, poverty, disease, joblessness, and powerlessness. Our DPMI program focuses on creating programs, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and strategic partnering to meet current development challenges. Learn more about our curriculum.
About Our Program
Do these questions inspire or intrigue you?
How does global trade contribute to development through access to technology, capital, and more? How do we promote peace-building and positive social change? What role do businesses, governments, and civil society organizations play in shaping global development?
If so, the Peace, Trade and Development Certificate Program could launch you on the path to become an effective agent of global change.
International Policy Studies Master's Program
International Policy Program
Our master’s degree in International Policy Studies is a two-year program offering a combination of rigorous learning formats. Through interdisciplinary coursework and immersive professional experiences, graduates of the International Policy program are prepared to be the solution to some of the most difficult challenges our world faces today including: resolving conflict, serving displaced persons, stopping human rights abuses, negotiating international trade and investment, and reducing poverty.
Master of Public Administration (MPA)
Our MPA Promise
Our student-centered Master of Public Administration program is for those longing to make a difference in confronting critical social problems including hunger, poverty, disease, joblessness, and powerlessness.
Through hands-on, applied experience, practical tools and knowledge and with community support to thrive, you will gain the skills and knowledge needed to combat these issues and to become a social change leader.
Financial Aid
Financial Aid Overview
Obtaining a graduate degree is a long-term personal investment. Please use the following pages to explore funding opportunities. Our counselors are available to guide you through this process. They are experts in designing financial aid packages that meet your needs. As many of our students customize their degree programs, we will personalize your financial aid experience.
“Tierra de Agua,” New Documentary Film by MIIS students - Premieres as Part of Earth Week
“Tierra de Agua,” a new documentary by three Monterey Institute Public Administration students, Cristina Lopez (MPA ’13), Manuel Martinez (MPA ’13) and Richard Hansen (MPA ’13), explores the different existing dimensions (rural, urban and indigenous) in the struggle for access to water and sanitation in Nicaragua, and the historic, economic and institutional implications of that access through the lenses of the people living it daily. It was premiered on Friday, April 19th in the Irvine Auditorium as part of student-driven activities during the week leading up to Earth Day on Ap
Tierra de Agua Trailer
Three students from the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program are making a documentary about clean water issues in Nicaragua. Manuel Martinez, Richard Hansen and Cristina Lopez partnered together as the H2Nica team to meet the people of Nicaragua and explore their struggle to have clean water in one of the world's most water-rich countries.
