Public Management and Leadership MPA

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.