RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.
RAND’s mission is both simple and incredibly complex: We exist to help policymakers make decisions that are based on the best available information. This may not sound much different from the goals of other policy research institutions. But the difference is in the details. At RAND, our results are fueled by the best data, the strongest methods, and the brightest minds.
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
For seven decades, RAND has used rigorous, fact-based research and analysis to help individuals, families, and communities throughout the world be safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. Our research spans the issues that matter most, such as energy, education, health care, justice, the environment, international affairs, and national security.
As a nonpartisan organization, RAND is widely respected for operating independent of political and commercial pressures. Quality and objectivity are our two core values.
RAND’s research is commissioned by a global clientele that includes government agencies, foundations, colleges and universities, and private-sector firms. Philanthropic contributions, combined with earnings from RAND’s endowment and operations, make possible the RAND Ventures program, which supports innovative research on issues that are crucial to the policy debate but that reach beyond the boundaries of traditional client funding.
RAND disseminates its research findings as widely as possible to benefit the public good. More than 23,000 RAND publications and commentary are available for free at www.rand.org.
RAND also operates the Pardee RAND Graduate School, the largest public policy analysis Ph.D. program in the United States and the only program based at an independent public policy research organization.