43 Government Degree Programs

Government, Business, and Ethics is an academic programme which prepares graduates for success as managers and citizens of the global village by equipping you with skills which will be equally useful at home or abroad, in the corridors of government or the halls of industry, in the office or the classroom, at a board meeting or a trade union congress, in a rural village or a capital city, among the leaders of communities and nations or the captains of industries, among people striving to improve their lives or mixing with those who implement policies which affect people’s lives.

MSc in Geoenvironmental Resources and Risks geosciences rule our life on the Planet! The UN Agenda 2030 demonstrates how geologists are the professionals who can most contribute to support and educate society to understand the Earth as a complex but fragile system and are involved in attaining the Agenda goals. There is a growing need for geologists all over the world who can face, using modern, quantitative, and interdisciplinary technologies, the critical challenges of the Earth's future.

If you've ever wondered who makes the rules and why, we invite you to explore the systems that govern our lives in the Government & Society cluster. You will dive into the fascinating world of politics, history, law, and social change.

The Bachelor of Arts in Government and International Politics degree program at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government is ideal for students who are interested in a career path in political science, international relations, public service, law, campaigns, or research. As a student in the program, you will learn to critically examine political issues, prominent actors, and processes in government, foreign policy, and international affairs. As governments and politics around the world respond to the rapid advancement of technology, this degree program equips students to face new challenges boldly and effectively.

Bring about meaningful change and advance your career with a master’s degree in government. This flexible program equips you with practical skills for solving today’s governmental, political, and policymaking challenges.

Transform public policy at Birmingham with our MSc in AI and Government. This cutting-edge course empowers social scientists to master AI and ethical governance through hands-on projects and interdisciplinary learning, shaping a future where technology and policy converge for societal impact.

The Master's Degree in Local Government and Innovative Public Policies offers specialized training in government and management of local administrations, aimed at strengthening the skills of those who aspire to work in this public sphere, of those who lead and manage it and of those from the private sector offer support services to local governments.

The Master's Degree Programme in Government and Public Affairs offers a solid and cohesive education in the main fields of politics, administration, public policy, governance systems and, more generally, public affairs, while ensuring a high degree of versatility in the majors that can be pursued.

Digitalisation is a critical issue in today’s global and European politics. The ways in which digitalisation affects states, politics, government, diplomacy and society are some of the issues covered by ESPOL’s master’s degree in Digital Politics and Governance. This unique training programme in France, combining theory and practice, allows students to gain detailed knowledge about both digital technologies, politics and the interaction between the two and acquire the skills necessary to access key professional positions in public and private organisations.

Explore the evolving nature of public administration, focusing on leadership, efficiency, and reform. Benefit from expert teaching, global insights, and practical skills, including an international field trip, to advance your career in public management worldwide.

Explore global poverty solutions with our MSc in International Development. Combine theoretical and practical teaching, gain critical insights, and receive personalised support from expert faculty in a supportive and diverse academic community.

The Master in Political Science includes 120 credits over 2 years, including 20 credits for an internship or a research dissertation.

NSU's government majors graduate with comprehensive knowledge of the American political system, the philosophy behind the political activity, and the way politics work in a global environment. In this program, you’ll learn to write and argue concisely and effectively - valuable skills in virtually any career. Most graduates end up in law, government, politics, and business.

As of 2009, all government institutions must apply the General Government Accounting Law (LGCG) and documents issued by the National Council for Accounting Harmonization (CONAC); therefore it is necessary that all institutions have up-to-date specialists in the matter. Article 1 of the Accounting Law establishes that this Law is mandatory for the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers of the Federation, the states and the Federal District; the town councils of the municipalities; the political-administrative bodies of the territorial demarcations of the Federal District; the entities of the parastatal public administration, whether federal, state or municipal, and the autonomous federal and state bodies. The Postgraduate in Government Accounting trains specialists, capable of managing public resources, under the principles of performance, legality, efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, and honesty; that they correctly apply the postulates and guidelines established in the General Government Accounting Law (LGCG) and documents issued by the National Council for Accounting Harmonization (CONAC), for this purpose; generate information, evaluation, and opinion that helps in decision-making and issuance of proposals to optimize the accounting process, accountability and transparency; looking for an optimal administration of public resources. The information generated by government accounting is in the public domain, it is based on the record of economic-financial operations carried out with company resources and as such, it is mandatory disclosure and reports on the results of public management. The Government Accounting System is made up of the set of records, procedures, criteria, and reports structured on the basis of common technical principles intended to capture, value, record, classify, report, and interpret in a systematic way, transactions, transformations, identifiable events and quantifiable that, derived from economic activity and expressed in monetary terms, modify the economic, financial and patrimonial situation of public entities in particular and of public finances in general. The Government Accounting System of public entities must record in a harmonious, delimited, and the specific way the budgetary and accounting operations derived from public management, as well as the economic flows. Likewise, it must periodically generate useful, reliable, relevant, timely, understandable, and comparable financial statements. The Postgraduate in Government Accounting provides the tools and knowledge necessary to comply with the obligations of Public Officials; Federal, State, or Municipal.

Wesleyan's Department of Government is dedicated to exploring "who gets what, when, and how," as Harold Lasswell defined political science in 1935. The Department might well be called a department of political science or a department of politics; it is called a Department of Government for historical reasons. Department faculty today uphold a tradition, more than a century old, of distinction in scholarship and teaching.