First approved by Penn State's Board of Trustees in January 2007, the Penn State School of International Affairs was officially launched on July 1, 2007. Penn State's School of International Affairs is highly interdisciplinary and draws extensively upon the intellectual resources of faculty in several academic colleges of the University. The School of International Affairs offers a professional master's degree in international affairs with several specialty concentrations. Its mission is to prepare exceptional students for careers and leadership positions in both the private and public sectors of an increasingly interdependent world.

The School of International Affairs is housed administratively within Penn State's Dickinson School of Law and will operate under the guidance of Tiyanjana Maluwa, its inaugural Director and the law school's H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law, and a faculty governing council composed of leading faculty from some of Penn State's top graduate departments.

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