MSc Public Policy and Management
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 25,740 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for overseas student fees | home student fees: GBP 15,130 per year
Introduction
The MSc Public Policy and Management programme will develop your capacity to understand, analyse and manage organisations in the public sector.
The programme provides students with state-of-the-art knowledge of theories, doctrines, and techniques for making public sector entities perform efficiently and effectively. You will develop practical skills to design and implement systems of public service delivery, devise applications of digital technologies to public services, lead innovation and change, and manage public financial resources.
You will have the opportunity to learn about and discuss some of the crucial issues that governments face nowadays, from healthcare to education, climate change to natural disasters, from migration to poverty reduction, and from the cultivation of capacity building to the development of digital strategies. A wide range of optional modules will provide you with the opportunity to explore several public sector-related topics.
The School of Finance and Management is excited to continue its collaboration with Practera, building on the success of the previous SFM Virtual Industry Projects. These bespoke work-based learning projects are designed to grow your professional skills and network through working with a team of SOAS students to tackle a real-world business challenge.
Finance and Business Network Seminar 2023/24
- This Seminar Series is open to all our UG and PG students. It offers you the opportunity to engage with experts from the worlds of business, finance, banking, and the public sector
- Listen to leaders within their fields and network with them, fellow students and Faculty over refreshments
- Most events will be held on campus, but some will be held at industry headquarters. For example, in 2022/23 an event was held at Citigroup’s Canary Wharf Offices
- The networking part of the seminars will also provide opportunities to engage with practitioners to help foster students’ career visions.
Admissions
Curriculum
Students must take 180 credits. These are composed of 120 taught credits comprising core, compulsory, and optional modules and a 60-credit dissertation.
Not all optional modules are offered every year. Also note that where 15 credit modules are selected, these should be balanced between term 1 and term 2.
Core
- Public Governance, Accountability and Transparency
Compulsory
- Management, Innovation and Leadership in the Public Sector
- Public Policy: Perspectives, Issues and Strategies
- Digital Government and Regulation
- Public Financial Management
Compulsory Dissertation or Project
Choice of:
60-credit dissertation (if students take the dissertation module, then they must submit a dissertation proposal after auditing the Research Methods module. The research proposal would carry 25% of the marks and the dissertation itself 75%)
- Research Project (School of Finance and Management)
- Dissertation in Public Policy and Management
Guided Options
15-45 credits to be selected from List A
- Research Methods
- Cultural Intelligence and Global Business Communication
- International Human Resource Management
- Data Analytics with Python
- Project Management (School of Finance and Management)
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Graduates from the School of Finance and Management leave SOAS with a coherent and solid knowledge of management and finance, with skills in statistics and computing, critical reasoning and analytical thinking.
Recent Finance and Management graduates have been hired by:
- Christian Aid
- Dagong Global
- Deloitte
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Elbus Group
- Financial Times
- FM Capital Partners
- HM Treasury
- Houlihan Lokey
- Huaxia Bank, China
- IDB (Islamic Development Bank)
- Investec
- J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- KPMG
- Lloyds Banking Group
- Santander
- UBS
- University of Oxford
- White & Case LLP
- World Food Programme
Program Leaders
Program delivery
Masters programmes (with the exception of two-year full-time MAs) consist of 180 credits, made up of taught modules of 30 or 15 credits, taught over 10 or 20 weeks, and a dissertation of 60 credits. The programme structure shows which modules are compulsory and which optional.