The Master’s program in Public Administration (UG MPA) is designed to prepare internationally competitive and highly qualified public administration professionals aspiring democratic values and Good governance principles, ready to assume leadership, effectively plan, implement, and evaluate public sector programs and thus contribute to delivering better public services through innovation and policy change.

Georgia has put forward its public administration reform agenda striving for democratic values and good governance principles, fostering open, transparent, and service oriented public institutions. Ongoing political-administrative reforms, European integration processes and democratization of public programs and services bring a number of conceptual and managerial challenges to the public administration praxis in Georgia. The smooth transition from an old, command-and-control governance system to the new, open and distributive administrative processes is only possible through the new generation of highly qualified public administration professionals.

Accordingly, MPA curriculum is designed to deliver in-depth knowledge of managerial, political, legislative, and economic aspects of public administration, encourage innovative thinking and problem-solving skills, provoke entrepreneurial and leadership mindset and provide practical skill-set to contributes to the successful professional career development as well as qualitative improvement of the public administration praxis nationwide.

The graduate will have:

• In-depth knowledge of public administration and public policy and is capable of reasoning, analyzing and evaluating policy-administrative processes and ongoing reforms in the field; It is also capable of independently enhancing public administration and knowledge in adjacent areas;
• Thorough knowledge of the legal basis of public administration: constitutional foundations of governance, municipal and administrative law, public service system, and public agency functioning, and can discuss and critically evaluating public administration legal issues;
• Able to identify and analyze the interconnection, influence and impact of political thought and ideologies, as well as microeconomic and macroeconomic factors and regularities with public policy and governance processes;
• Able to conduct independent research in public administration and related areas: preparing research design and methodology, conducting academic and applied research using qualitative and quantitative methods, analyzing research results and presenting them to a professional audience; Critical evaluation of the methodology and results of research projects implemented in Sphere;
• A systematic knowledge of the organizational context of public administration, the peculiarities of managing public / state, civil, public and non-profit organizations;
• Able to choose a rational, objective and politically unbiased course of action, develop a policy paper and present it to a professional audience, using a public policy analysis methodology to solve a problem or evade it;
• Able to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate a project in line with public administration standards;
• In-depth knowledge of the peculiarities of public service creation, delivery policy and implementation and is able to plan, process and evaluate public service policy definition and implementation;
• Based on ethics and principles of public governance, political impartiality, effectiveness, accountability, honesty and fairness, one can observe open, result-oriented and good governance principles.