The University of Montana's Department of Public Administration and Policy is the first of its kind in Montana. The mission of our department is to provide a cutting edge public sector education for our students from high-quality faculty committed to applied research and teaching. Our department offers a variety of degrees: Master of Public Administration, certificates in public policy, nonprofit administration, and public administration, and an undergraduate minor in nonprofit administration.The University of Montana's MPA Program (Master of Public Administration, certificates, and undergraduate minor in nonprofit administration) is centrally located within the Max S. Baucus Institute to provide a cutting edge public service education.<br><br>The University of Montana MPA program prepares pre-career and mid-career professionals for dynamic and impactful work in the public and nonprofit sectors by developing a core set of skills, scholarly knowledge, applied, and basic research.<br><br>Asserting public service values is at the core of the University of Montana's mission and thus, carried out by our curriculum. In all of our core classes, we emphasize the need for integrity, ethical conduct, serving the public interest, fairness, accountability, and transparency in public service. ASPAs ethical code is used in many of our classes given that it is the primary professional organization for those in the practice of public administration.