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Program Details

Enrich Your Public Administration Career and Help Your Community

Delivered by the prestigious Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, our online MPA program allows you to practice leading-edge management and problem-solving skills as you enhance your knowledge of the field. Plus, you’ll gain the professional experience you need to make values-based decisions in your ideal public administration career.

With Your Master of Public Administration (MPA), You Will:

• Lead and manage in public governance
• Participate in and contribute to the policy process
• Analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems and make decisions
• Articulate and apply a public service perspective
• Communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry.

Learn to Address Complex Administrative Challenges.

• 100% Online
• 30 Months
• 36 Credits

Choose from Two Specialization Options:

Health Systems Management 

You can add a nine-credit specialization in Health Systems Management to your online MPA. You’ll gain the analytical and managerial tools to lead in public and not-for-profit healthcare organizations and related institutions.

General Specialization

You can add a nine-credit General Specialization to your online MPA. The General Specialization develops essential decision-making and analytical skills for public and nonprofit managers.

UD’s MPA online program teaches you to contribute solutions to the public challenges of our times through research and public service projects that involve you in experiential learning.

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