Program name: | Public Administration |
Study Level: | Graduate |
Program leader: | Eka Gegeshidze Nodar Kherkheulidze |
Study language: | Georgian, with some English components |
Qualification: | |
Program capacity: | 120 |
Program permission: | .. |
Program goals: | 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.
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. |
Methods for Attaining Learning Outcomes: | |
Learning outcomes: | |
Date of approval: | 12-12-2005 |
Approval protocol number: | 4 |
Date of program update: | |
Update protocol number: | 61/19 |
Program details: | |
Teaching Process Characteristics: |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
PUBL2020 | Legal Aspects of Public Administration | 6 | 1 |
PUBL5110 | State Governance | 6 | 1 |
PUBL6580 | Political Ideologies | 6 | 1 |
ECON6580 | Economics | 6 | 2 |
PUBL2050 | Public Sector Project Management | 6 | 2 |
PUBL6220 | Public Policy Analysis | 6 | 2 |
PUBL2030 | Public Organizations and Non-profit Management | 6 | 3 |
PUBL2040 | Policy and Management of Public Services | 6 | 3 |
PUBL2060 | Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation | 6 | 3 |
PUBL6570 | Research Methods in Public Administration | 6 | 3 |
PUBL6300 | Master Thesis in Public Administration | 30 | 4 |
Credits sum: | 90 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
PUBL5240 | International Organizations and Institutions | 6 | |
BLCH5110 | Blockchain - Decentralized information system | 6 | 1 |
STAT5111 | Business Statistics | 6 | 1 |
PUBL5111 | Decentralization and Civic Engagement in the Governance | 6 | 1 |
MGMT5210 | Human Resource Management | 6 | 1 |
PUBL6112 | Crisis Management in Public Organizations | 6 | 2 |
MGMT6110 | Organization Behavior | 6 | 2 |
MGMT5230 | Strategic Management | 6 | 2 |
PUBL5279 | Administrative Leadership in Public Sector | 6 | 3 |
PUBL5225 | Grant Writing | 6 | 3 |
MGMT5110 | Operations Management | 6 | 3 |
PUBL5050 | Public Sector Internship | 6 | 3 |
Credits sum: | 72 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
LAWP 5260 | Comparative Constitutional Law | 6 | 1 |
LAWP5250 | Legal Forms of Administrative Organs Activity | 6 | 1 |
LAWP5510 | Law of Political Parties | 6 | 2 |
LAWP5460 | Law of Public Service | 6 | 2 |
BLCH5119 | Regulation of Smart Contracts | 6 | 2 |
LAWB6190 | Economic activity and taxation | 6 | 3 |
Credits sum: | 36 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
IREL5220 | International Organizations | 6 | 1 |
IREL5110 | Theories of International Relations | 6 | 1 |
IREL5352 | European Union, NATO and transatlantic politics | 6 | 2 |
IREL6131 | Foreign Politics and National Defense of US | 6 | 2 |
IREL5240 | Global Energy and Environment Studies | 6 | 2 |
IREL5322 | Global governance and sustainable development | 6 | 2 |
IREL5353 | Global governance and transparency | 6 | 3 |
IREL5321 | Globalization media and governance | 6 | 3 |
PHMA5110 | Public Health and Health care Policy | 6 | 3 |
Credits sum: | 54 |
Point | GPA | The university assessment | The general assessment in Georgia | |
97-100 | 4,00 | A+ | A | Excellent |
94-96 | 3,75 | A | ||
91-93 | 3,50 | A- | ||
87-90 | 3,25 | B+ | Very good | |
84-86 | 3,00 | B | B | |
81-83 | 2,75 | B- | ||
77-80 | 2,50 | C+ | C | good |
74-76 | 2,25 | C | ||
71-73 | 2,00 | C- | ||
67-70 | 1,75 | D+ | D | Satisfactory |
64-66 | 1,50 | D | ||
61-63 | 1,25 | D- | ||
51-60 | 1,00 | E | E | Sufficient |
Not passed | ||||
41-50 | FX | FX | Insufficient | |
<40 | F | F | Failed |