Working with clients, our master’s students apply skills and tools they’ve learned in political, economic, and statistical analysis on real-world projects.
Client projects
Stories about students working with real-world clients as a part of our Cost-Benefit Analysis and Capstone courses.
Tree canopy, pocket parks could make La Crosse cooler
La Follette School students researched policy solutions to would reduce the urban heat island effect in the City of La Crosse.
Capstone projects provide real-world training and policymaking opportunities
Students concluded their graduate education this spring by completing projects addressing real-world challenges on behalf of clients from the public, non-governmental, and private sectors.
La Follette students highlight benefits of universal child savings accounts in Wisconsin
La Follette School students showed that universal child savings accounts could have significant benefits for the state when they conducted the first statewide cost-benefit analysis of the idea.
Capstone project helps Outrider Foundation investigate oceanic nuclear waste
A first-of-its-kind project conducted by La Follette students helped inform an Outrider Foundation investigation that looked at radioactive materials littering the Arctic seas.
Students gain policy analysis experience with real-world clients
Working in teams, students produce research-based, analytical, evaluative, and prescriptive reports for clients.
La Follette students present child care findings at Madison capitol
Students presented their analysis of policy alternatives to increase equitable child care access in La Crosse County to legislators and legislative staff members at the annual UW–Madison Day at the Capitol.