Reach your potential in public service with Johns Hopkins University's MA in Public Management program, ranked among the best public affairs programs by U.S. News & World Report. The program includes electives that fit multiple career paths, along with 3 optional focus areas: Public Administration and Leadership, Public Policy Evaluation, and Public Financial Management and Budgeting. You can complete the 12 courses online or in Washington, D.C., finishing in 16 to 24 months. Learn more today.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management is preparation for managing and advising public sector organisations. There is an emphasis on managing people, managing change and designing and using information systems. Public sector organisations need good managers.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Public Management is preparation for managing and advising public sector organisations. There is an emphasis on managing people, managing change and designing and using information systems. Public sector organisations need good managers.

Do you want to contribute to finding solutions for global issues such as conflict, poverty, migration, environmental protection and corruption? Then this master track is what you are looking for. The master programme International Public Management and Public Policy (IMP) is a one-year graduate programme that stimulates students to navigate the increasingly multinational and international nature of public management and public policy-making.

All over the world, governments and public institutions are challenged to provide high-quality services, respond swiftly to citizens’ needs and resolve problems effectively and efficiently. The Master of Public Sector Management (MPSM) program uniquely prepares individuals who seek to become public sector managers in this volatile, complex and uncertain international environment. 

Advance your government or public service career with Hopkins’ innovative and flexible MA in Public Management program. Whether an online or on-campus student, what you learn in class will help you to address real-world governance and policy issues.

The purpose of the Master of Public Management and Governance is to equip students with specialized knowledge and insights to develop in-depth knowledge in a complex area of study through independent research, to demonstrate specialized leadership, self-reflexivity, and adaptability, to develop analytical and management competencies at the master’s level to perform advanced and professional tasks in the public sector, to gain abstract knowledge into either policy evaluation as a higher-order management function or sustainability management, to synthesize information autonomously in these specialized fields in order to become leaders who can handle contradictions and evaluate highly complex problems independently, to write high-level texts and to apply research methods and techniques to solve problems which need scientific solutions.

The part-time course in social, public and nonprofit management includes business knowledge, legal principles and a deep understanding of non-profit organizations. Graduates also develop social skills.

With this Master's degree, the aim is to acquire advanced, specialized and multidisciplinary training, aimed at knowing the current state of research in the field of public management.

In Postgraduate Diploma in Public Financial Management (Online)Organisations need managers with a thorough understanding of public finance so that they can make financial decisions and design and operate financial systems for collecting, spending and accounting for public expenditure. Depending on which options you choose, this programme will enable you to make decisions about investment projects, when and how to use privatisation and public-private partnerships, and how to manage the financial relationships between national and sub-national governments.

In the Postgraduate Certificate in Public Financial Management (Online), organisations need managers with a thorough understanding of public finance so that they can make financial decisions and design and operate financial systems for collecting, spending and accounting for public expenditure. Depending on which options you choose, this programme will enable you to make decisions about investment projects, when and how to use privatisation and public-private partnerships, and how to manage the financial relationships between national and sub-national governments.

This graduate certificate program is designed to provide graduating seniors, alumni, and working professionals with the knowledge, skills, and techniques to respond to the managerial and leadership challenges in the public and nonprofit sectors. Students pursuing the Online Graduate Certificate in Public and Nonprofit Management program will be required to adhere to the following admission and certificate completion requirements.

The purpose of the MA in Public Management and Governance is to provide students with specialized knowledge and insights into the nature of policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation as a higher-order management function and the nature of African governance, as instruments to improve developmental policy service delivery outcomes and good governance in practice.

By attending this course, you will be able to successfully manage public services to achieve service excellence and community objectives. You will: - understand Budget management for operational managers. - be able to make a step-change in service performance. - appreciate the role that stakeholders play in defining public service value for money. The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

The Master in Public Management and Policy – PMP, is offered by the Università della Svizzera italiana in collaboration with the universities of Lausanne, the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration - IDHEAP, and Bern within the framework of the inter-university network “Swiss Public Administration Network.” Supported by the Swiss Confederation, this master’s program is designed to train qualified professionals ready to effectively and swiftly tackle the challenges of the contemporary public sector.