Public Administration, M.P.A.
Develop your leadership expertise with a strong foundation in public service values.
Develop your leadership expertise with a strong foundation in public service values.
Launched in 1982, the Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) was the first graduate degree offered at Park University. Our values-grounded, professional master’s program is designed to develop your leadership skills, awareness of the social and economic environment within which public and nonprofit administrators perform their roles, along with providing essential skills such as budgeting, personnel administration, and data analysis. You will build your knowledge base, decision-making capabilities, critical thinking, and organizational expertise across government, nonprofit and, NGO sectors.
Note: Alumni of Park University do not need to submit official transcripts and will have their application fee waived.Â
Department Chair and Director, HSPA, Department of Politics & Administration
Professor of Public Administration
james.vanderleeuw@park.edu
MPA Director
Associate Professor of Public Administration
skeim@park.edu
Park University is home to one of the premier public affairs schools in the region, the Hauptmann School of Public Affairs. We recognize public affairs as the field of study that builds upon the interrelationships among the activities of government (at all levels), all sectors of society, and other elements of social and economic systems, locally and throughout the world. Today’s leaders must view government and administration from this broad, cross-sector perspective.
As a master’s candidate in this program, you’ll select an area of concentration: