The Department of Public and Healthcare Administration (DPHA) offers the Masters in Public Administration (MPA) , the Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA) and graduate certificates in healthcare administration and nonprofit management. Students working toward the MPA choose one of three concentrations: government and leadership; nonprofit management, or health policy and management. The MPA requires 39 graduate credits, the MHA requires 42 graduate credits, while the certificate programs require 15 credits. Students who complete one of the certificate programs can apply all earned credits toward one of the two masters degrees if they are accepted into the degree program. Courses are offered in the late afternoons and evenings, on alternate Saturdays, and online to accommodate the schedules of working professionals.

The department offers a 60-credit dual degree program with the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations leading to both MA and MPA degrees, and five-year BA/MPA degree programs with select undergraduate students majoring in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. 

The MPA is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA).  Its Nonprofit Organization Management concentration has been listed among the top ten in the country by U.S. News & World Report for many years.

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Our faculty conduct internationally recognized research and innovative, technologically-enhanced instruction. Grounded in practical experience but exploring the frontiers of their disciplines, they are models of nature academic excellence.

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The Department of Public and Healthcare Administration is located in Jubilee Hall.  With six stories and more than 126,000 square feet of academic space, this structure contains faculty and administrative offices for several departments and 30 teaching spaces, ranging from seminar rooms that seat eight people to an auditorium seating 390.  Jubilee classrooms all come with state of the art technological features, such as wireless access, computer projection screens, portable computer terminals and distance-learning technologies that facilitate the transmission of lectures all over the world.

The University Libraries have notable resources, including extensive holdings of almost 700,000 book volumes, and 1,127 current periodical subscriptions, back-files of more than 6,500 serial titles, electronic access to full text articles in more than 25,000 journals, a broad selection of indexing and abstracting services in both digital and print formats, various microform collections, music CDs, and audiovisual aids. A complete listing of database resources can be found at http://www.shu.edu/academics/libraries/.