Ethics has become a “hot-button” issue in recent years. From “creative accounting” to stem cell research, from Jeffrey Skilling to Terry Schiavo, the preoccupation with the moral aspects of business, medicine, and public policy has swelled of late. In the last decade or so, a huge number of US corporations have created ethics and compliance programs, universities and hospitals have strengthened institutional review boards, state and municipal authorities have started to pay attention to the moral implications of their actions, and numerous non-profit organizations have been created to study the implications of developments in biotechnology, environmental practices and political resource allocation. It is this growing interest in ethics that the graduate program has been created to meet. We will prepare our graduates for ethics-related positions in governmental, non-governmental, professional and business sectors. In addition we will provide excellent preparation for students who want to proceed to earn law degrees or doctoral degrees in philosophy, political science and public policy.