Brigham Young University specializes in city management, human resource management, financial management, policy analysis, and information systems. The emphasis at Brigham Young is on public service at the state and local level. Our curriculum is highly integrated and focused on public management.
Most classes place a heavy emphasis on collaboration and team work.
The median age of MPA students at Brigham Young University is 31, with approximately 60 percent of the entering class of 1995 working full-time between graduation from college and entering graduate school. While 38 percent of the class brings undergraduate preparation in either business or political science to bear on their graduate studies, fully 62 percent of the class earned their baccalaureate degrees in other disciplines. To assist them with guidance and placement, the institution offers an internship coordinator. Placement Upon being conferred an MPA, roughly half of Brigham Young's graduates placed in state and local government positions throughout the mid-west and west. Another quarter of the University's students placed in Human Resource Management positions in the private sector.