The Public Administration Program (bachelor’s degree) aims to train qualified professionals to work in planning, deploying, monitoring, controlling, and evaluating processes and activities related to Public Administration, as well as to work in formulating, supervising, and evaluating public policies. In general, the program aims to provide the students with a critical, humanistic, and technological education, paying attention to political matters and contemporary subjects that guide their performance along with society. Thus, it intends to train people committed to citizenship through a pedagogical project that includes curricular flexibilization, inter- and transdisciplinarity, interaction with other areas of training and professional performance related to the Public field, as well as the qualification and early preparation of academic researchers.
The profile of professionals from UFOP Public Administration (bachelor’s degree) fulfills the needs of contemporary public organizations, which look for managers with a comprehensive understanding on administrative actions and public policies able to work in the Public Administration of municipal, state, national, and international domains, as well as in civil society organizations from different sectors and interests.
