The Master’s program in Public Administration (UG MPA) is designed to prepare internationally competitive and highly qualified public administration professionals aspiring democratic values and Good governance principles, ready to assume leadership, effectively plan, implement, and evaluate public sector programs and thus contribute to delivering better public services through innovation and policy change.

Georgia has put forward its public administration reform agenda striving for democratic values and good governance principles, fostering open, transparent, and service oriented public institutions. Ongoing political-administrative reforms, European integration processes and democratization of public programs and services bring a number of conceptual and managerial challenges to the public administration praxis in Georgia. The smooth transition from an old, command-and-control governance system to the new, open and distributive administrative processes is only possible through the new generation of highly qualified public administration professionals.

Accordingly, MPA curriculum is designed to deliver in-depth knowledge of managerial, political, legislative, and economic aspects of public administration, encourage innovative thinking and problem-solving skills, provoke entrepreneurial and leadership mindset and provide practical skill-set to contributes to the successful professional career development as well as qualitative improvement of the public administration praxis nationwide.