MPA Curriculum
The USC Master of Public Administration program reflects both the breadth and diversity of the ever-changing nature of public administration. The MPA program offers a solid professional education designed to prepare students for all the challenges and opportunities of a career in public management. Some of the program's specific strengths are:
- sound management, analytical and policy-making skills that prepare students to pursue their individual interests and concentrate in one of many specialized fields
- a full-time faculty of exceptional diversity and strength
- an active part-time faculty of outstanding professionals
- a history of leadership in the professional and academic field for 80 years
- the opportunity for students without work experience to gain paid internship experience in the Los Angeles area
- an extensive alumni network
- an Advisory Board comprising leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors
- the USC State Capital Center which gives students the opportunity to experience the complexities of state/local and state/federal relationships
- a unique and multidisciplinary environment within SPPD which integrates all the major disciplines bearing on management and leadership in the modern, interconnected socioeconomic and political environment