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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.
About this degree
To be effective in policy implementation and leadership of organisations, managers require knowledge of management theories and skills, but, at the same time, require an understanding of the distinctive features of each of the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
The MPA programme blends these two, combining the management knowledge and skills typically taught in business schools with an understanding of public policies typically conveyed in traditional public policy degrees. It takes a problem-based approach, combining the latest scholarship and practice, to prepare students to think creatively and to innovate in an ever more complex and constantly evolving multi-actor governance environment.
The programme’s leadership emphasis across sectors allows students to work across a wide variety of governmental and non-governmental institutions in their careers and critically shapes their capacity to engage multiple actors towards a common purpose.
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.
