This course is co-designed by leading academics and senior administrators who are currently involved in the study and practice of 21st century governance. That means you’ll be gathering a fairly impressive list of core professional skills in the areas of public management, policy analysis and leadership. You’ll be able to boost your ethical research skills by undertaking a dissertation project and enhance your career opportunities at both the national and sub-national levels of the public services sector. Now that’s good policy. Study a Master of Public Administration at UC and you will: gain a broad view of public management, service delivery and policy analysis across the spectrum of public sector activities understand how the international political environment affects organisational objectives understand the different modes of governance available to deliver different public goods and services be able to accurately use, interpret and draw inference from information gathered as evidence to support routine and strategic decision-making gain a critical understanding of the central concepts relating to public administration, public management and public policy.

A range of career opportunities exist for Master of Public Administration graduates in a range of sectors, including in: Federal government as a general operations manager, labour relations manager or financial manager Local and state government as a chief administration officer, human services director or public works director Non-profit sector as a program director, grant administrator or fundraising manager.