Master of Public Administration (MPA), also translated as Master of Administration (Taiwan Province), was established to meet the requirements of modernization, scientificity and specialization of public administration. Its training goal is to train high-level, applied and compound management talents with both ability and political integrity for government departments and institutions to meet the needs of socialist modernization. Graduates are required to become leaders, managers and other public service talents who master advanced analytical methods and technologies and are familiar with specific public management or policy fields.

Public management is a discipline system that studies the management activities and laws of public organizations, especially government organizations, by using the theories and methods of management, politics, economics and other disciplines.

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1924 Syracuse University newly established Maxwell School of Civil and Public Affairs, and launched the first MPA (Master of Public Administration) program in the United States, offering comprehensive education and training courses in public administration or management.

Following the initiation of MPA education by Syracuse University, Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and Wood Wilson School of International Affairs of Princeton University also launched MPA education programs in 1930s and 1940s to carry out MPA education and training. MPA education in the United States has a history of 80 years since the American public service training school.