When she graduated from New Hampshire’s Dover High School in 2019, Makayla Edgecomb ’23 knew she wanted to go to UNH. Her mother, Laurie, had started out at UNH, but had a life detour and wasn’t able to finish as planned. Now working in the Dover public schools, Laurie Edgecomb believes in attending college right after high school.

In this day and age, earning a quality education is no simple feat. Degree programs are increasingly costly and often take years to complete. However, research continues to prove that the rate of return on the investment of paying for a higher education degree is large enough to encourage the decision to enroll. In acknowledgment of these roadblocks, the University of New Hampshire has designed a flexible and engaging program that allows undergraduate students to earn a master’s degree in just 12 months, allowing them to complete their undergraduate and graduate degrees in 5 years.

For undergraduates and working professionals, understanding the distinct differences and similarities among public service master’s degree programs is essential. Perhaps the two most popular public service degrees – the Master in Public Policy and the Master of Public Administration – focus on preparing professionals to work in public service roles across different industries and career fields. However, the training that these programs offer students – and even the career roles that they prepare students for – can vary significantly.

When it comes to sustainability you can never have too much validation, particularly when it recognizes a commitment that runs deep, as it does at UNH. The latest distinction comes from  the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) whose 2020 Sustainable Campus Index places UNH among the top 10 in three impact areas, and #6 overall among doctoral institutions.

Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson told the New Hampshire Union Leader that migration will play an important role in population growth across New Hampshire in the future. In fact, 84 percent of the population gains from 2010-20 come from out-of-staters. Stay Work Play New Hampshire recently launched a new initiative that focuses on recruiting more younger people to the state as well.

Get to know Katie Leger '23, one of our peer assistant leaders who helps incoming first-year students adjust to life at UNH Manchester.

UNH's Collaborative Research Excellence initiative has funded 14 interdisciplinary projects.

Carsey School of Public Policy Senior Demographer Ken Johnson was recently honored as part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institution research team awarded the National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the USDA.

Michael Ettlinger, the director of the Carsey School,  believes that rural voters have 37% more power to determine control of the Senate. The rural bias of the Senate has existed for a long time, though partisan shifts have meant it only started directly damaging Democrats recently ― the party had senators in both North and South Dakota as recently as 2012. Ettlinger notes it has always given rural states extra policy influence, making gun control legislation more difficult to pass and leading to lavish agricultural subsidies.