Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- 39
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Curriculum
The MPA requires the completion of at least 39 semester hours with a GPA of 3.0 or higher distributed as follows:
Required core courses (21 hours) with a minimum of 3.0 GPA in core coursework:
PAPA 420: Quantitative Analysis
PAPA 500: Fundamentals of Public and Nonprofit Administration
PAPA 501: Public Organizations
PAPA 510: E-Government and Cybersecurity
PAPA 530: Public Budgeting
PAPA 540: Public and Nonprofit Human Resource Administration
PAPA 550: Public Policy: Context, Process, & Analysis
Area of emphasis courses (18 hours): Chosen from an approved list of public administration courses in areas such as general administration, public management, nonprofit management, human resource administration, safety and security, and leadership.
Unclassified graduate students may take PAPA courses only with the permission of either the department chair or the MPA program director.
