Master of Public Administration with Seoul National University

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This graduate program offers students a unique opportunity to develop skills and expertise in the field of public administration from a U.S. and Korean perspective. The program is designed and offered in partnership with Seoul National University (SNU). Students spend a year at USC Price and a year at Seoul National University and earn the MPA degree.

Admissions

Students wishing to pursue the dual MPA degree will have to apply to both SNU GSPA and USC Price separately and fulfill both institutions’ admissions criteria independently. Please see the Price Website for further information.

Sample Program - Price Students

Year One - USC (24 Units)

PPD 500 Intersectoral Leadership Units: 2
PPD 501a Economics for Policy, Planning and Development Units: 2 and
PPD 501b Economics for Policy, Planning and Development Units: 2
or
PPD 540 Public Administration and Society Units: 4
PPD 541 Public Financial Management and Budgeting Units: 4
PPD 542 Policy and Program Evaluation Units: 4
PPD 545 Human Behavior in Public Organizations Units: 4
Electives Units: 6

Year Two - SNU (19 Units)

M2856.000100*   Theories of Global Public Administration, or
M2856.000600   Economics and Public Administration   Units: 3
Electives    Units: 6
PPD 546  **   Capstone in Public Administration    Units: 4

*Price students would take either PPD 540 or PPD 501a and PPD 501b in their first year, and then would take the equivalent SNU GSPA course for the other one in their second year.

**The capstone course is taken in the last semester at Price.

Sample Program - SNU Students

Year One - SNU (18 Units)

M2856.000100   Theories of Global Public Administration    Units: 3
M2856.000300   Social Research Methods of Public Administration   Units: 3
Electives    Units: 6
Independent study (thesis preparation)    Units: 6

Year Two - USC (24 Units)

PPD 500 Intersectoral Leadership Units: 2
PPD 501a Economics for Policy, Planning and Development Units: 2
PPD 501b Economics for Policy, Planning and Development Units: 2
PPD 541 Public Financial Management and Budgeting Units: 4
PPD 545 Human Behavior in Public Organizations Units: 4
Electives Units: 10

Variations from the above:

Price students could take both the PPD 540 and PPD 501a and PPD 501b courses in either their first year or their second year, instead of one of the two in each year.

GSPA students could take Economics and Public Administration in their first year rather than in their second year at Price, and they could take PPD 540 in their second year at Price rather than in their first year.

Price students could take Social Research Methods of Public Administration at GSPA in their second year instead of Policy and Program Evaluation (PPD 542 ) in their first year, and GSPA students could take Policy and Program Evaluation (PPD 542 ) at Price in their second year instead of Social Research Methods of Public Administration in their first year.