12 Government Master's Degree Programs

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Through this program, students who take it will acquire sufficient skills to be able to develop in the public sector in the areas of evaluation of the application and use of financial, human, and material resources.

The Master of Public Governance has the opportunity to work on any high, middle, or low position in any State Authority – Ministry, LEPL, Governmental Organization, any Local Self-Government authority scientifical-research organization, NGOs which work on issues of Public Governance research and development.

The Master's program in Public Administration aims to prepare the future public servant following the requirements of modern public administration, who will have an in-depth and systematic knowledge of public administration and governance principles, public governance theories, national and international legal regulations, and economic standards.