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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.
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Programme Structure
Full Time Students must complete a total of 180 credits over one year of study, including 120 taught module credits and a 60 credit dissertation.
1. You are required to take the following four compulsory modules:
· PUBL0063 Governance and Public Management (30 credits)
· PUBL0062 Data Analysis for Policy (30 credits)
· PUBL0048 Leadership and Organisational Behaviour (15 credits)
· PUBL0054 Dissertation (60 credits)
2. Choose two of the following modules up to a value of 30 credits in total (if you wish, you may select additional modules from this list as part of your elective modules - see step 3 below):
· PUBL0014: Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Management and Policy (15)
· PUBL0028 Policy Implementation (15 credits)
· PUBL0029 Strategy and Organisational Change (15 credits) – not running 2024-25
· PUBL0031: Law and Regulation (15)
· PUBL0064 Impact Evaluation Methods (15 credits) – not running 2024-25
· PUBL0065 Public Finance & Budgeting (15 credits)
· PUBL0111: Technology, Politics, Regulation and Society (15)
3. Choose further modules up to a value of 15 credits in total. The following modules are suggestions and may vary year on year (you cannot re-choose the modules you selected from step 2, but the other modules remain options):
· PUBL0009 - Health Policy and Reform (15 credits) – not running 2024-25
· PUBL0011 - Public Policy Economics & Analysis (PPEA) (15 credits)
· PUBL0017 - Making Policy Work (15 credits)
· PUBL0019 - Policymaking & Regulation in Europe (15 credits) – not running 2024-25
· PUBL0021 - The Transformation of Politics in Europe (15 credits) – not running 2024-25
· PUBL0027 - Agenda Setting (15 credits)
· PUBL0004 - International Political Economy (15 credits)
· PUBL0074 - The Political Economy of Development (15 credits)
· PUBL0033 - Parliaments, Political Parties & Policy Making (15 credits)
· PUBL0049 - Global Public Policy (15 credits) – not running 2024-25
NB A full list of optional modules is available on the UCL Module Catalogue Please view this link for more information relating to Political Science Modules.
Module Selection
- Guidance on how to select your modules can be found here
- A full list of modules is available in the UCL Module Catalogue
- Please view this link for more information relating to Political Science Modules.
