In 2022, the minimum admission score for the postgraduate entrance examination of public administration in Xiangtan University is 360:

School of Public Administration of Xiangtan University was established in 2007, which was developed on the basis of the integration of related majors and disciplines of Humanities College, Information Management Department and Management College.

At present, the college covers two first-class disciplines: public management, library and information, and file management. It has two first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points: public management, library information and archives management, social management and urban management, two first-level discipline master degree authorization points, and two professional degree authorization points: master of public administration (MPA) and master of library information (MLIS).

The college has six undergraduate majors: administration, political science and administration, library science, information management and information system, archives science and emergency management, and has set up an experimental class for cultivating top-notch talents (public management Shao Feng class). Administration and archival science are the national first-class undergraduate specialty construction points, while library science, information management and information system are the provincial first-class undergraduate specialty construction points.

The discipline of public administration was ranked 17 in the third round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, and was rated as Grade B in the fourth round. The acceptance of discipline evaluation has always been "excellent".

The college has provincial-level research institutions and discipline platforms, such as the key research bases of philosophy and social sciences in colleges and universities in Hunan Province-government performance evaluation and management innovation research base, information resource management and intellectual property research base, Hunan provincial government performance evaluation research center, and Hunan social science popularization base-public information resource management and development and utilization base.

At the same time, it also has many school-level research institutions and discipline platforms, such as Xiangtan University Public Management Research Base, China-India Comparative Research Center for Social Governance, Social Security Research Center, Information Resource Management and Data Engineering Experimental Center, and Ecological Civilization Construction Performance Evaluation Center.