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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
Chair: Dr. David Abrahams

DEGREE OFFERED

Master of Public Administration

Graduate Program Coordinator:
Dr. David Abrahams
Room 2329, Center for Business and Graduate Studies

The Department of Management, Marketing and Public Administration is
committed to preparing Master of Public Administration (MPA) graduate
students to enter the public and nonprofit sectors in leadership and
management positions. The program is designed to produce public
administrators who are highly skilled as policy analysts, managers, and human
resources professionals. Professors work with students to develop and improve
their skills in research, analysis, presenting and preparation of written reports.
Students are taught to follow the requirements that are set forth by reputable
authors of handbooks for writing these and other empirically based intellectual
documents (APA Manual, Kate L. Turabian, and others). Still, there are some
students who attend this program to sharpen their skills and improve their
performance as a part of their ongoing career development.

The MPA degree program addresses a number of statewide educational goals
articulated in “Educating for the 21st Century: The Maryland Plan for
Postsecondary Education.” This is an evening school program that has students
in attendance from all levels of the public sector.

We attribute our ever-increasing enrollment to the information revolution and
the explosion of knowledge technology. This, of course, has created a rapidly
changing workforce that requires frequent changes in occupations, skills,
training and education. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that most
professionals will change careers five or more times during their working years.

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