Public Administration Management (MPA) (M)
Advance your career with a new set of management and leadership skills.
Why choose this program?
Designed for working professionals, the MPA(M) gives you the freedom to learn from anywhere, at your own pace. Our online/blended program's optimal blend of theory, analysis, and day-to-day practical learning gives you a unique framework to address the complex national and global policy and management issues that leaders and executives face today and in the future.
Applicants must have more than five years of relevant professional experience post-grad and reside in Canada to be considered eligible for the program.
Careers
Students in the MPA(M) Program come from a variety of backgrounds – from public servants, to healthcare, to education, to non-profit and more. Regardless of your background, this program will equip you with the management and leadership acumen in the context of the public sector to move your career forward or become more efficient in your current role.
Admission requirements
You'll need to meet the Faculty of Graduate Studies minimum requirements as well as any program-specific admissions requirements before you can apply.
Applicants must have more than five years of relevant professional experience post-grad and reside in Canada to be considered eligible for the program.
Financial information
At Dalhousie, we want our students to focus on their studies, rather than worry about their personal finances. We offer competitive tuition rates and funding programs to support graduate students in almost all of our professional master's degree programs.
Program options
The Master of Public Administration (Management) is delivered on a part-time basis only, in an online/blended format.
Students can complete the program in as little as 2.5 years or take up to 7.
Curriculum: Students take a mix of nine core courses designed to give you the fundamentals and 4 electives intended to take your knowledge to the next level, both delivered online.
Intensives: Students attend an end-of-term in-person (some available online) intensive in either Halifax or Ottawa to capstone each course. Intensives allow students the opportunity to develop lifelong relationships with other public and not-for-profit sector professionals.
All graduate programs at Dalhousie are collaboratively delivered by a home Faculty and the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
