What is MPA?

What is MPA?

MPA is the English abbreviation for the Master of Public Administration professional degree. It is based on the discipline of public administration and other related disciplines. A basic graduate education program whose purpose is to cultivate high-level, application-oriented professionals for government departments and non-governmental public institutions.

In foreign market economy developed countries, the Master of Public Administration (MPA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Laws (JM) are known as the three pillars of high-level vocational postgraduate education in liberal arts. MPA education has become the main way to train senior civil servants in these countries. In accordance with the requirements of modernization, scientificity and professionalization of social management under the new situation, our country has established a public affairs management system that is efficient, coordinated in operation and standardized in behavior to meet the needs of the socialist market economy, and has improved national public affairs and Administrative cadre training system, build a high-quality professional team of national public affairs and administrative cadres, actively carry out MPA education, and starting from 2008, MPA degree education has been officially launched in 24 key universities in China.

The gradual development of MPA education in our country will definitely have a huge impact and positive promotion on our country’s higher administrative education and civil servant education and training.

Origin and Development

MPA is the English abbreviation for the Master of Public Administration professional degree. It is based on the discipline of public administration and other related disciplines. A basic graduate education program whose purpose is to cultivate high-level, application-oriented professionals for government departments and non-governmental public institutions. In foreign market economy developed countries, public administration master's degree (MPA), business administration master's degree (MBA) and law master's degree (JM) are known as the three pillars of high-level vocational graduate education in liberal arts. MPA education has become the main way to train senior civil servants in these countries. In accordance with the requirements of modernization, scientificity and professionalization of social management under the new situation, our country has established a public affairs management system that is efficient, coordinated in operation and standardized in behavior to meet the needs of the socialist market economy, and has improved national public affairs and Administrative cadre training system, build a high-quality professional team of national public affairs and administrative cadres, actively carry out MPA education, and starting from 2008, MPA degree education has been officially launched in 24 key universities in China. The gradual development of MPA education in our country will definitely have a huge impact and positive promotion on our country's higher administrative education and civil servant education and training.

Positioning of MPA

Positioning of MPA MPA education is a general education whose goal is to cultivate senior professionals in public affairs management and public policy research and analysis. Applied talents are trained for government agencies and non-profit non-governmental public institutions with modern public management theory and public policy qualities, mastering advanced analytical methods and technologies, and proficiency in some specific policy areas. Managers, leaders, policy analysts and (mid- to senior-level) staff. The training targets are employees with practical experience in government agencies or non-governmental public institutions. This training goal determines that in the training process, we focus on the cultivation of practical abilities and qualities, and the teaching content is oriented to the society, especially the practical problems faced in the public sector.

1. MPA will become an important way to train civil servants in our country

Judging from the situation, the academic level of our country’s civil servants is generally not high. According to statistics at the end of 1999, among the 5.41 million civil servants in the country, those with a college degree Only about 52% have the above educational level. At the same time, the knowledge structure is not reasonable. Even those with higher education mostly have a single professional education. Modern administrative management knowledge, especially the taxation, finance, legal knowledge and macro-decision-making ability required by the market economy are generally weak. Carrying out MPA education will enable on-the-job civil servants to systematically learn modern administrative management theories and improve administrative management levels in combination with practice. It will be conducive to optimizing the academic structure, knowledge structure and professional structure of the civil service team, and will be instrumental in building a high-quality, professional team. A modernized civil service team will play a positive role in promoting the development of the civil service.

2. MPA education will become an important guarantee for the improvement of the public security management system

my country’s current public security management system and theory lags behind the pace of reform and opening up. From the perspective of the operation of power, the power of the public sector is too concentrated, and it lacks institutional guarantees of democratic supervision and the theory, understanding and skills in this area; from the perspective of the exercise of functions, the functional boundaries between public sector organizations are inconsistent. Clear, bloated institutions, overlapping levels, and low efficiency; in terms of ideological concepts, official-oriented thinking prevails, and legal and scientific awareness is weak.

The launch of MPA education will promote our country's research on the basic operating mechanisms, basic functions and personnel systems of government and other public management departments in the new economic and political environment. Through education, training and research, we will gain institutional and theoretical knowledge. The comprehensive update and development of human quality will support the deepening of administrative reform and the improvement of management performance, so that government reform can achieve effective results and truly establish a public administration system that is compatible with the market economy.

3. MPA will become a positive driving force for the development of higher administrative education

For a long time, our country has not had an independent management discipline. Although since the mid-1980s, our country has The research and teaching of public administration (administrative management) have been restored. After nearly 20 years of development, significant progress has been made in academic research, discipline construction and talent training in this subject area, but it is far from being able to adapt to the establishment and market of our country. The need for an economically-compatible public service management system and the cultivation of a high-quality civil service team. Carrying out MPA education, through a large amount of theoretical research and teaching practice, will greatly promote the establishment and development of administrative management disciplines in our country's colleges and universities, thereby ultimately developing and forming a public management system that meets the needs of the socialist market economy and has the characteristics of our country. A distinctive higher administrative education system. It plays an important role in cultivating high-level compound administrative talents that meet the needs of economic and social development in the new century.

Since the training objectives of MPA are consistent with the employment destination of graduates, Taiqi Education’s social and government needs make MPA graduates have very broad employment prospects. Government departments at all levels and non-governmental companies* **Management agencies, public institutions, state-owned enterprises, etc. are all employment areas for MPA graduates.

In the past 20 years, the proportion of top managers in the United States with MPA degrees has been increasing. An estimated 10% to 20% of civil servants working in the federal government have a degree similar to an MPA degree. When the government recruits civil servants, certain positions require an MPA degree.

In France, a considerable number of graduates from the National School of Administration are senior civil servants in government departments. Since its establishment 50 years ago, the institute has provided a large number of outstanding senior administrators to the government. According to statistics in 1996, of the 4,200 graduates of the college who are still working, 80% work in the government or public sector, 1,900 are senior civil servants, 30 are members of the House of Representatives, 10 are senators, and there is another Approval of ambassadors, etc. Current President Chirac and former Prime Minister Juppe are both graduates of the academy. The French National School of Administration is also known as the "cradle of senior civil servants" and has had a huge impact on the entire country's administrative management.

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