Public Administration and Management MPA

The MPA offers a balanced coverage of a wide range of public administration topics, with a strong focus on managing public services and leadership skills. Participants are exposed to public affairs challenges usually faced by public organisations, or related non-profit and private firms. The programme's curricular structure and real-world fieldwork opportunities foster the managerial skills needed to meet today's greater demands for accountability and success from public, non-profit, and private organisations.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of two core modules (60 credits), four optional modules (60 credits), and a dissertation (60 credits).

• Governance and Public Management (30)
• Data Analysis for Policy (30)

• Leadership and Organisational Behaviour (15)
• Policy Implementation (15)
• Impact Evaluation Methods (15)
• Public Finance & Budgeting (15)
• Policy Advice (15)
• Choose further modules up to a value of 30 credits in total. The following are suggestions:
• Health Policy and Reform (15)
• Public Policy Economics & Analysis (PPEA) (15)
• Making Public Policy (15)
• Policy-Making & Regulation in Europe (15)
• The European Union, Globalisation and the State (15)
• Agenda Setting (15)
• Strategy and Organisational Change (15)
• British Government & Politics (15)
• Law & Regulation 1 (15)
• International Political Economy (15)
• The Political Economy of Development (15)
• Parliaments, Political Parties & Policy Making (15)
• Democracy and Accountability: Holding Power to Account (15)

All students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of 10,000 words.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars. Assessment is through a variety of methods, including essays, unseen examinations, graded coursework and a dissertation.