RAND School of Public Policy · Concurrent Degree

MNSP + MTP Curriculum Planner

Toggle courses to build a 20.5-unit plan that satisfies both degrees. Courses in the center column are cross-listed — take them once, count them twice. Click details on any course for its catalog description and professor, and star ★ courses you're curious about as alternates without committing them to the plan. Your selections save automatically in this browser, and you can snapshot named versions of a plan below.

Nat. Security Policy 0 / 12.5 units
Technology Policy 0 / 12.5 units
Double-counted 0 / 4.5 units
Units you'd take 0 / 20.5 target
Saved plans Saved in this browser
Snapshot the current selections under a name — e.g. “Intelligence Focus” or “Space and AI track” — then switch between versions. Load one, tweak it, and hit Update on its chip to save changes back. Your working plan also auto-saves on every click. To move plans to another device (like an iPad), use Export backup at the bottom of the page.
Concurrent graduation checklist
Tracks the combined requirements in RAND’s July 2026 MTP–MNSP Concurrent Degree Program Tracker. This is the authoritative combined view; the three columns below remain useful for seeing how each course applies to the individual degrees.
Electives must include at least 2 national security-oriented units and 2 technology-oriented units. The worksheet does not classify every elective, so confirm those designations with the Registrar.
Add or edit planner courses

Semesters offered and posted times

Check every location where the course is available. Enter times as Mon/Wed 17:00-18:30; separate different meeting patterns with a semicolon. DC and Santa Monica times are local.

Quarter Schedule

Spread your selected courses across quarters (RAND runs Fall–Winter–Spring with summers off). RAND says full-time concurrent students complete both degrees across five quarters without extra coursework in any one term; six quarters remain visible here for planning flexibility through Spring 2028.

Fall meeting times shown in Eastern Time. Remote offerings work for either campus.
Offering data: Fall 2026 instructors, delivery modes, days, and meeting times come from RAND's July 22 course plan. Quarter and campus availability through Spring 2028 comes from RAND's AY26–28 curriculum plan, with the July 2026 concurrent-program tracker and advising email controlling the three-part capstone sequence. Both planning documents say offerings may change with enrollment and program needs. Anything you set by hand in the week view overrides the posted time.

More from the Course Catalog

Every other course in the RAND catalog ↗ that isn't already listed above. The program pages note that additional courses may count as electives — add one to a degree's elective bucket here (units come from the course's catalog page; confirm with the registrar whether it qualifies). A course can be attached to one degree at a time so nothing accidentally double-counts.

Unofficial planning aid: This site is not an official RAND School advising or registration system. Confirm degree classifications, offerings, and graduation requirements with the Registrar.

Assumptions baked in: baseline course units, descriptions, and catalog faculty come from each course's catalog page (scraped July 2026), with newer AY26–28 units used where the supplied plan differs; NSP regional/functional overflow counts toward NSP electives and MTP methods/deep-dive overflow counts toward MTP electives, per the notes on each program page; RAND's July 2026 concurrent tracker sets the shared capstone at 1.5 units, requires four methods units and six elective units, and its detailed requirements total 20.5 units; the accompanying email says 21 units, but 12.5 + 12.5 − 4.5 and the worksheet's own categories both equal 20.5, so the planner retains the internally consistent 20.5-unit target; the remaining 2 flexible overlap units are allocated among courses appearing on both degree lists. Quarter dates come from the published academic calendar (2026–27 and 2027–28). Elective offerings rotate by year, so use the catalog browser and "add a course" fields as the real schedule firms up.