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MPA PG Dip Master of Public Administration

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    MPA: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time; PGDip: 9 months full-time, 18 months part-time

Course Description

A career in public administration is a demanding but extremely rewarding way to improve the lives of the people around you. It’s about finding solutions to complex societal challenges, and organising the implementation of these solutions through policies.

If you consider yourself to be a leader who’s not afraid to challenge existing methods, and act as a representative of the public, our MPA is for you. It’s an internationally recognised qualification to equip you with skills and knowledge of:

  • governance
  • leadership
  • strategy
  • public organisation and management
  • managing people
  • public sector economics
  • public finance and accounting
  • public policy processes

You could end up working for the government, in NGOs or consultancy, looking at major issues affecting the population such as climate change, food and water supplies, public health, and national security.

Entry Requirements

2.2 (or international equivalent) in any discipline

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Some of our postgraduates from the school have gone on to work for organisations such as:

  • Stonewall
  • Youth Movement for Reform Judaism and Zionism
  • Nottingham Labour Party
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Mitsubishi
  • Sky
  • Taylor Wessing

81.8% of postgraduates from the School of Sociology and Social Policy secured graduate level employment or further study within 15 months of graduation. The average annual salary for these graduates was £33,070.

Module Details

Core modules

  • Leadership, Strategy and Performance in the Public Sector
  • Managing People
  • Policy Analysis: Concepts and Theories
  • Public Management and Governance
  • Public Sector Financial Management
  • Research Methods and Research Management
  • Dissertation in Public Administration (MPA only)

Optional modules

  • China Beyond the Headlines
  • Dynamics of International Social Policy
  • Economics and Policy Analysis
  • Globalisation, Europeanisation and Public Policy
  • Theoretical Frontiers in Criminology
  • Welfare Policy

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