Text for slide 1: Small and Select. Keeping our program intimate – only 35 students admitted each year – ensures an exceptional level of attention, instruction, and interaction.

Text for slide 2: The 'Green' Choice. Our world-class, low cost program - with tuition rates 50-75% below key competitors - is a best buy.

Text for slide 3: Diverse Faculty. Top scholars and professionals drawn from diplomacy, commerce, and intelligence bring real world, real time experience to the classroom.

Text for slide 4: Speaker Program. Policymakers, professors, corporate leaders, and political activists who visit the Patterson School not only speak, but also meet and dine with our students.

Text for slide 5: Corporate Engagement. Visits to headquarters and manufacturing facilities of major corporations provide invaluable insights on business and trade.

Text for slide 6: Student Internships. Students spread across the nation and globe, sharpening skills learned in class while building professional experience.

Text for slide 7: Lots of Options. Innovative programs can be tailored to match your ambition and interests by tapping UK’s wide range of schools and colleges

Text for slide 8: Teamwork -- Network. Our close-knit, multifaceted program is designed to enhance teamwork and establish a bond with classmates that will last a lifetime.

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Director's Welcome

How do you advance peace, bridge historic cultural divides, develop new energy resources, and fight terrorism in today's troubled world? My recent visits to the Caucasus, Turkey, Brazil, and Afghanistan underscore one clear answer: with diplomacy and commerce. At every stop, leaders and regular citizens alike told me that progress is being made today not by military action, but through diplomatic and economic engagement. more »

CJCS Admiral Mike Mullen

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen underscored the need for the entire U.S. government to adopt an “expeditionary strategy” to meet national security needs. Giving the Patterson School of Diplomacy’s 2008 Vince Davis Lecture, Admiral Mullen stressed that “the U.S. military is the best in the world, but it still can’t do it alone.” In the fight against terrorism, he stressed, specialists from civilian departments – Commerce, Justice, Treasury – as well as from allied nations, are needed to capitalize on the security and stability that military forces can bring to a country. more »

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