Public Administration, MPA (Arlington)

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Quantitative Techniques

• INSH 6500 — Statistical Analysis

Analysis

• PPUA 6502 — Economic Analysis for Policy and Planning
• PPUA 6506 — Techniques of Policy Analysis

Administration and Management

• PPUA 6500 — Principles of Public Administration
• PPUA 6505 — Public Budgeting and Financial Management
• PPUA 6507 — Institutional Leadership and the Public Manager

Capstone

• PPUA 7673 — Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Internship Requirement

From the catalog

All MPA students are required to complete an internship. At least one year of relevant, full-time work experience in a public, nonprofit, or related field may be used to fulfill the course requirements of PPUA 6861, using the college's Credit for Prior Learning assessment process.

• One of:
  • PPUA 6861 — Internship
  • PPUA 6954 — Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time
  • PPUA 6955 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad - Half-Time
  • PPUA 6964 — Co-op Work Experience
  • PPUA 6965 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad

Optional Co-op Experience

• All of:
  • INSH 6964 — Co-op Work Experience
  • EESH 6000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Electives

12 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete 12 semester hours from the following:

CRIM 5000 to CRIM 7999 (by advisement only)

ECON 5000 to ECON 7999 (by advisement only)

ENGL 5000 to ENGL 7999 (by advisement only)

HIST 5000 to HIST 7999 (by advisement only)

INSH 5000 to INSH 7999

LPSC 5000 to LPSC 7999

POLS 5000 to POLS 7999 (by advisement only)

PPUA 5000 to PPUA 7999

SOCL 5000 to SOCL 7999 (by advisement only)

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under public-administration-mpa-arlington, and the official page is the authority.