Public Administration Panjab University

Overview

Key facts:

• At Public Administration at Panjab University the Department at the Panjab University has regular full-time courses for MA and M.Phil. The Masters' programme in Public Administration is job oriented in nature and multi-disciplinary in approach. The course has been scientifically planned so that it constitutes building blocks to impart specialized, skill based education through teaching, activities, workshops, seminars and conferences. It provides students with the knowledge and skills to analyze and manage processes of governance, policy making and administration at many levels of government.

• The diversified course content has made the courses popular both in and outside India. The Department has been attracting students from Ethiopia, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Earlier a large number of African, Mauritian and Iranian students were regularly enrolled in the Department. Some of the foreign students are sponsored under cultural exchange programmes. Against 60 seats, the department normally receives around 700 applications.
• The M.Phil. Course has been designed with a view to impart knowledge of recent advances in the discipline and to train the students in the theory and practice of research.