24 Government Masters Degree Programs

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.

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.

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

The Master of Arts in Government gives students the tools to examine governmental and social institutions in our society, explore areas of reform, and most importantly, bring about change. The program combines the theory and practice of government, politics, and policy-making.

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.

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.

A counter-terrorism course investigating the growth of terrorism, political context and countering terrorism from academic, strategic and operational perspectives. Complete your MSc in 27 months. Establish yourself as an authority in Counter-Terrorism, as well as opening up new career and employability options.

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.

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.

The Master in Government and Management of Public Policies is a professional program, which is born from the Department of Government and Business and the Center for Regional Development and Public Policy Studies (CEDER), as a way of responding to the needs of high specialization in the public sphere, promoted by these academic instances.

Combining theoretical insight with practical application, the Georgetown Master of Arts Program in American Government offers its students a rich, stimulating environment in which to understand the nature of American politics, to see it in action and to participate in the political and/or governmental system. This accelerated, 12-month program draws on its setting in the nation’s capital and the strengths of Georgetown University’s Department of Government.

The Master of Liberal Arts (A.L.M.) in Government is designed to give students a broad understanding of political systems, policy-making, and governance. The program emphasizes the development of crit...