Graduate Programs

Admission Requirements

Degree Requirements

M.P.A.

Health Administration M.P.A.

Health Management and Policy M.P.H.

Executive M.P.A.

Executive M.P.A.

The Executive MPA offers a work-centered curriculum that is designed to reflect the way problems realistically present themselves in the workplace. Courses are organized and planned with deliberate sequencing to maximize learning that carries over from one course to another. Students admitted to this degree have at least 10 years of experience and are required to complete 45 credits of coursework in a cohort model.

Requirements

Core courses (39)

PA 513	Administrative Ethics and Values	3
PA 517	Leadership Development for Public Organizations	3
PA 518	Leading Public Organizations	3
PA 533	Public Policy: Origins and Process	3
PA 534	Administrative Law	3
PA 539	National Policy Process	3
PA 540	Administrative Theory and Behavior	3
PA 545	Organizational Development	3
PA 552	Analytic Methods in Public Administration II	3
PA 583	Advanced Budgeting Concepts and Techniques	3
PA 590	Human Resource Management in the Public Sector	3
PA 510	Selected Topics	0-6
PA 510	Selected Topics	0-6

PA 510: (determined based on cohort members’ interests and opportunities.)

Capstone Requirement (6)

Students will register for the following course to complete their capstone, a culminating project intended to demonstrate mastery of the core skills taught in the program as applied to a real-life problem of public management:

PA 512

Case Analysis

3-6

Total Credit Hours: 45

Nonprofit and Public Management Graduate Certificate

Public Affairs and Policy Ph.D.