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Hey guys! I am an international student and have been accepted at SIPA (MPA) and GSPP (MPP). I have a couple of questions: 1. Which program, in your opinion, is more geared towards international placement? ( the kind of effort career service dept puts in and the support alumni network shows?) 2. When you say more more/less quantitative what exactly do you mean? From the looks of it SIPA and GSPP both offer the same kind of core courses. Then how do you differentiate? 3. Why, and how, do you say that GSPP MPP is domestic policy focused? As i said earlier, SIPA is offering almost the same kind of core courses and its supposed to have an international focus (or atleast thats what my impression is) 4. Are professors accessible/helpful at each university ?(especially at SIPA which takes in a lot more people than GSPP) 5. What was the batch size last year at SIPA and GSPP? (Do they divide the incoming batch into different sections or everyone goes into one section?) 6. Which degree has more international prestige ? (Does columbia's ivy status really matter that much?) Feel free to give any additional info on the two programs. tx