Master of Public Administration with Seoul National University
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.
To view descriptions of the courses below, visit the USC Course Catalogue.
Sample Program – Price Students
Year One – USC (24 Units)
- PPD 503 Economics for Public Policy (Units: 4) or
- PPD 540 Fundamentals of Public Administration (Units: 4)
- PPD 504 Essential Statistics for Public Management (Units: 2)
- PPDE 505 Professional Workshop in Public Administration (Units: 2)
- PPD 541 Public Financial Management and Budgeting (Units: 4)
- PPD 545 Public and Nonprofit Organizational Behavior ( Units: 4)
- Electives, one 4-unit management elective and one 4-unit analytics elective (Units: 8)
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 503 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 503 Economics for Public Policy (Units: 4) or
- PPD 540 Fundamentals of Public Administration (Units: 4)
- PPDE 505 Professional Workshop in Public Administration (Units: 2)
- PPD 541 Public Financial Management and Budgeting (Units: 4)
- PPD 545 Public and Nonprofit Organizational Behavior (Units: 4)
- Electives, including one management elective and one analytic elective (Units: 10)
Variations from the above:
Price students could take both the PPD 540 and PPD 503 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 their analytic elective at USC 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.