Learning and Leading for Global Human Well-Being
The University of Pennsylvania, known as Penn, is a highly selective and top-ranked Ivy League university that is located on a beautiful urban campus in historic Philadelphia. The Penn International Master of Public Administration, known as the Penn I-MPA, is an exciting, innovative, skills-based graduate degree program that is expressly dedicated to improving global human well-being by professionally educating, nurturing, and networking present and future problem-solving leaders.
The Penn I-MPA takes only one academic year and ten courses to complete. It is an academically cutting-edge cohort model program (all I-MPA degree candidates take all I-MPA courses together and participate in numerous extra-curricular learning experiences together) led by a distinctively interdisciplinary, multinational, and multilingual team of world-class scholars and noted leaders in government, business, and the nonprofit sector who teach, advise, mentor, and inspire our students. Merit scholarships are available to exceptionally well-qualified applicants who are accepted and enrolled.
I-MPA degree candidates are educationally equipped and professionally empowered through five interlocking program components, four required and one optional:
- Curriculum: Ten well-integrated courses that culminate in an advanced individual research and writing capstone paper and two group capstone course projects.
- Languages: Two language proficiency requirements: English and Mandarin.
- Extra-curricular activities: Extra-curricular experiences including special events and field trips.
- Advising: Year-long, robust, individualized academic advising and career mentoring.
- Alumni fellowships: An optional paid alumni research and service fellowship in the summer following graduation.
The I-MPA program starts on August 23, 2021, with the new student orientation. Classes start with the first semester on August 31, 2021, and finish at the end of the second semester on May 10, 2022.
