Master of Public Administration (MPA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Law (JM) are called the three pillars of higher vocational postgraduate education in liberal arts in developed countries.
MPA education has become the main way to train senior civil servants in these countries. According to the requirements of modernization, scientificalness and specialization of social management under the new situation, in order to establish a public management system with efficient operation and standardized behavior to meet the needs of socialist market economy, improve the training system of national public affairs and administrative management cadres, and build a high-quality and professional contingent of national public affairs and administrative management cadres, China has actively carried out MPA education, and since 2008, it has officially opened MPA degree education in 24 key universities across the country. The gradual development of MPA education in China will certainly have a great influence and positive promotion on China's higher administrative education and civil servant education and training.
Emergence and development
The emergence of MPA education is closely related to the development of public administration (or management). As a kind of professional education, public management first came into being in Germany in the18th century, and trained specialized management talents to meet the needs of Prussia's national management and economic development at that time. But it is the United States that put public management into practice as a professional degree education.
As early as the beginning of19th century, the United States began to brew public administration or management education. By 1887, Wilson published his paper "Research on Administration", which is generally regarded by academic circles as the beginning of American public administration education. 19 1 1 year, the "Public Service Training School" was established in new york, USA, which trained staff for the new york Research Bureau and inspired a large number of universities to offer public management courses. 1924, the public service training school moved to Syracuse University, merged with the newly established Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and launched the first MPA project of BB America to establish a comprehensive education and training course in the field of public administration.