The university master’s degree Advanced Public Management has been taught at the UB since 2009. The degree itself is designed to train students to enter the job market with a series of specialist skills and competences, and it builds on the UB’s experience, since the academic year 1991-1992, of studies offered in the area of public management and administration. The lecturers on the course are all actively involved in different areas of public management and administration and have made their professional experience and their association with other professionals an inherent part of the course and its objectives.

Applicants should bear in mind that previous studies in this field are not a prerequisite for admission on the course and that it is also addressed to degree holders in other social sciences who wish to receive training in top-level management in the public sector or in organizations associated with that sector.

In terms of specific competences, the course is designed to help students do the following:

• Understand the operation of the legal system in different areas of law and administration and examine the challenges facing the public administration and the public sector in general.
  
  
• Be able to make the effective use of financial resources in the attainment of an organization’s objectives.
  
  
• Identify human resource needs in the public administration or in other organizational settings and use the tools, techniques and procedures currently employed in human resource planning, selection and improvement.
  
  
• Apply public evaluation techniques and methods using basic indicators on public management.

Finally, students will also be able to consolidate these skills in the subject areas that they find most interesting by choosing from a series of optional subjects.