Public Administration, MPA

Objectives of the Master of Public Administration Program

• Practice servant leadership using Christ as the model in serving people and society.
• Provide leadership, vision, and strategic planning in a variety of organizations and environments.
• Prepare to lead others in environments increasingly characterized by change and complexity.
• Master principles of human behavior and motivation to maximize use of human resources.
• Master key functional area skills in communications, human resources, accounting, governmental finance, economics, and public policy analysis.
• Appreciate the trend to interdependency between local, state, and federal agencies and the need to continually update leadership principles and techniques.
• Complete a significant hands-on project in a live organization and integrate the knowledge and skills from all courses taken.
• Develop organizational-wide skills in structure, coordination, policy, and design of subunits.
• Master methods of organizational change and development
• Develop the ability to apply the most recent research and concepts emerging in management and leadership.
• Interact with executive level leaders from the community to identify current challenges and strategies available to address them.

Graduation Requirements:

• Student must earn a program GPA of 3.0 or greater with no more than two C-, C, or C+ grades.
• All credit applied toward the M.P.A. degree must have been completed within six years of matriculation at Belhaven.
• No more than six semester hours of transfer graduate course work will be accepted. Transfer work must be from an accredited college or university recognized by CHEA and the Higher Education Directory and must have been completed within six years of matriculation in Belhaven’s M.P.A. program.

MPA Concentrations

Data Science , Finance , Human Resources