Máster en Gestión Pública

Program Overview

The Master's in Public Management online provides advanced skills in analyzing public issues, designing action plans, and evaluating policies. The program focuses on areas like budgeting, human resources, and citizen engagement, equipping graduates for roles in public administration, management, and consulting. Students benefit from a global perspective, networking opportunities, and a focus on ethics and innovation.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Master's Degree in Public Management - online is a university program designed to train highly qualified professionals to perform managerial functions in public administration. The program aims to equip students with advanced skills to analyze methods and strategies for detecting and analyzing social problems, design action plans, and effectively evaluate public policies.

Outline:

The curriculum focuses on specific public management topics, including:

• Budgetary management
• Administrative law
• Human resources management
• Citizen participation
Students will learn to utilize advanced evaluation and analysis techniques in economics, finance, and budgetary management to apply them to public organizations and services.

Structure:

• Duration: 1 year
• ECTS Credits: 60
• Language of Instruction: Spanish
• Title Awarded: Master's Degree in Public Management
• Awarded by: Universidad Europea de Madrid
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication

Teaching:

• Teaching Method: Online with live classes
• Faculty: Composed of accredited doctors and active professionals working in the international field (Colombia, Spain, and Ecuador), allowing students to develop a network of contacts and connections in the public sector.

Careers:

• Potential Career Paths:
• Middle management in public administration
• Public management director
• Managers
• Chief of Staff
• Senior official consultant
• Public contractor or manager
• Private sector (companies collaborating with the public sector)

Other:

• Program Highlights:
• Active Faculty:
The program is taught by accredited doctors and active professionals working in the international field, providing students with a network of contacts and connections in the public sector.
• Soft Skills Development: Students will develop leadership and communication skills essential for implementing transformation strategies in the public sector, including team leadership and decision-making.
• Online Flexibility: The program offers live classes that are recorded for later viewing, providing flexibility and compatibility with other activities.
• Global Perspective: The program adopts a global and digital approach, encompassing management, ethical culture, public policies, leadership, and innovation in the sector in Europe and Latin America.
• Unique Curriculum: The program provides a solid and comprehensive education, equipping students with ethical principles, transparency, accountability, and quality management of public services and administration.
Students will learn new communication methods, crisis management in institutions, and the application of current technological resources to improve public administration services.
• Double Degree Option: Students can specialize their studies and obtain a double degree through a University Course.
This option allows for further differentiation in the professional field.
• Exam Locations: Students can take exams at any of the seven Universidad Europea locations in Spain: Madrid, Valencia, Tenerife, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, and A Coruña.
They can also take exams or Master's Thesis presentations requiring in-person attendance at the five Latin American locations: Bogotá (Colombia), Santiago (Chile), Quito (Ecuador), Mexico City (Mexico), and San José (Costa Rica). Due to the sociopolitical climate in Ecuador and Peru, evaluations are conducted virtually, subject to change.
• Software Access: Students have access to Tirant lo Blanch software, a leading legal publishing group, to complement their academic experience.
These tools include:
• Tirant Prime:
A database approved by the CGPJ (General Council of the Judiciary) containing essential content and functionalities for legal practice.
• Gestor de Despachos: A legaltech software for managing a law firm digitally.
• SOFÍA: An AI-powered legal assistant that reads and understands legal texts to suggest relevant jurisprudence, doctrine, and legislation.
• Employment Data:
• Spain:
2.9 million workers in the public sector in the last quarter of 2022, according to INE (National Institute of Statistics).
• EU: Approximately 16% of the active population in the European Union worked in the public sector in 2022, according to Eurostat.
• Spain: Public employment in Spain increased by 95,800 people in 2022, representing the highest increase in Europe, according to the Labour Force Survey.
• Program Focus: The program emphasizes ethical principles, transparency, accountability, and quality management of public services and administration.
It also covers new communication methods, crisis management in institutions, and the application of current technological resources to improve public administration services.
• Learning Approach: The program emphasizes experiential learning, where students learn by doing.
It also incorporates significant learning, collaborative learning, professional learning, constructive and discovery learning, autonomous learning, individualized learning, and creative learning.
• Program Objectives: The program aims to equip students with advanced skills to analyze methods and strategies for detecting and analyzing social problems, design action plans, and effectively evaluate public policies.
• Program Content: The program covers topics such as advanced theories of administration and public management, advanced public management techniques, analysis and evaluation of public policies, goods, and services, management techniques and principles of human resource management in the public sector, administrative innovation and research, organizational culture, communication and information in the public sector, open government, transparency, and public ethics, leadership, negotiation, and mediation in public administrations, research methodology, and Master's Thesis.