MPA Public Administration (Distance learning)

Qualifications or experience

• A minimum of a second-class honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications. Preferably, applicants will have experience of working in a managerial role in a public sector organisation.

English language requirements

• English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 5.5.
  

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This Master’s in Public Administration is designed to turn ambitious public sector workers into managers and leaders within their field of public administration.

You’ll gain the specialist skills, expertise and insight to pursue higher level public sector roles, as well as lifelong transferable skills that you’ll be able to apply to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, throughout your career.

When you graduate, you’ll be ready to seek new roles in public sector leadership and management, or to aim for promotion in your current public sector career. You’ll be able to work with self-direction and originality, and contribute to public administration in local, regional or central government, or in an organisation working in partnership with the Government.

Graduates of this course have gone on to work in areas such as:

• ministerial advice
• central government policy units
• government partner organisations
• charitable foundations
• charitable foundations

Core modules

• Comparative Public Policy – 30 credits
• Partnerships, Problems and Probity: Solving Complex Social Issues – 30 credits
• Public Management and Administration – 30 credits
• Strategic Public Management and Leading Effective Change – 30 credits

Optional modules

• Dissertation/Major Project (Masters Public Administration) – 60 credits
• Work Based Project - 30 credits
• Project Management: Tools and Techniques - 30 credits