The College of Public Management (CPM) is proudly serves as home to nationally ranked programs and renowned faculty recognized as experts in their fields. Our strategic goals are to pursue excellent teaching combined with service learning, improve innovation and nurture creativity, focus on urban-rural development, and integrate Chinese characteristics into research.

SNAPSHOT OF THE CPM

l2 Primary Disciplines All rank top 50 in the Nation by Guangzhou Daily Data & Digit Institute (GDI). Sociology ranks 36 and Public Management ranks 49 in the nation.

l115 Research Faculty Members 17 full-professors, 40 associate professors

l2017, more than 900 New First-Year Students

l3403UndergraduateStudents

l280GraduateStudents, including 238 full-time students and 42 research oriented masters.

ACADEMICS

      Established in 2005, College of Public Management is a multidisciplinary college. In our teaching programs we aim to produce public policy professionals who will emerge as leaders in a wide range of organizational contexts: public, private, non-governmental and voluntary sectors. The College offers a wide range of programs for undergraduates and taught masters. Our Undergraduate Majors include Public Administration, Labor and Social Security, Management of Land Resource, Educational Economy and Management, Social Policy and Social Management, Sociology, and Social Work. Our taught master program, Master of Public Management, is launched in 2010. In 2011, primary discipline of Public Management is granted to the College. 

FACULTY

l2 Supported by “Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University”

l3 Provincial-level Nominees for the Guangdong Provincial “Thousand-hundred-ten Talent Program”

l2 Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department Nominees for “Thousand-hundred-ten Talent Program”

l2 Winners of Guangdong Nanyue Outstanding Teacher Award

l1 Winner of Guangdong Nanyue Outstanding Educator Award,

l1 Winner of National Outstanding Teacher Award for MPA

l1 Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Young Teacher Award

      Our faculty members graduated from many of the renowned universities and with a commitment to leading edge research and high quality teaching. Our academic and teaching faculty group has 59 people, including 2 supported by “Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University”, 3 provincial-level nominees for the Guangdong provincial “Thousand-hundred-ten Talent Program”, 2 Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department nominees for “Thousand-hundred-ten Talent Program”, 2 winners of Guangdong Nanyue Outstanding Teacher Award, 1 winner of Guangdong Nanyue Outstanding Educator Award, 1 winner of National Outstanding Teacher Award for MPA, 1 Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Young Teacher Award. We have 17 professors and 22 associate professors, of whom, 3 are advisers for Ph.D programs and 35 for master degree programs. 

RESEARCH CENTERS

The College is well equipped with teaching and research facilities:

l1 Experimental Teaching Center of Public Management of the Ministry of Finance

l1 Key Laboratory of Construction Land Recycling of the Ministry of Land and Resources

l1 Professorial Experimental Center of Guangdong Public Management

l1 Provincial Demonstration Centers for Experimental Teaching

l1 Guangzhou Municipal key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences

l1 research center of Governance at China’s Local Government, which is a jointed program with the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau and located in Yunfu City. 

      In the last five years, 16 research projects have been supported by national level grants and 64 projects were funded by provincial level grants, with a total fund of RMB 3.83 million yuan. 378 articles have been published in academic journals, most of which are top ranked in the field of public management, such as SSCI-listed journals, Journal of Political Science,Sociological Studies, and Chinese Public Administration. The College is well equipped with teaching and research facilities. There are 1 Experimental Teaching Center of Public Management of the Ministry of Finance, 1 Key Laboratory of Construction Land Recycling of the Ministry of Land and Resources, 1 Professorial Experimental Center of Guangdong Public Management, 1 Provincial Demonstration Centers for Experimental Teaching, and 1 Guangzhou Municipal key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences. We also have 1 research center of Governance at China’s Local Government, which is a jointed program with the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau and located in Yunfu City.

STUDENT LIFE

      The College has enrolled 401 graduate students since 2011, 121 of whom are awarded with Master Degree (include 1 foreign student, and 1 directly transferred to pursue doctoral degree). 280 graduate students are currently studying in the College, including 238 full-time students and 42 research oriented masters. Our teaching and research expertise offers students at all levels a vibrant academic environment which enables them to engage creatively and critically with the key policy challenges facing the contemporary world-locally, regionally and globally. Classroom learning and desk based research is, of course, just one part of university life and we seek to enhance student learning through various opportunities to broaden personal development, cultural sensitivity and applied skills. To these ends, the College offers an expanding range of extra-curricular activities both locally and abroad, including international exchanges, overseas study tours and internships.

Table 1 Awards Received by CPM Students in 2012-2016

      According to incomplete statistics by July 2017, 55 CPM undergraduate students are enrolled by overseas graduate programs in 2017. As shown in Figure 2, 19 students are enrolled in universities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), 16 are enrolled in universities in the United Kingdom, 9 are enrolled in universities in Australia, 6 are enrolled in the United States, 2 are enrolled in universities in Singapore, and three in others (Germany, South Korea and Malaysia). 42% of these students are from the Department of Public Administration, 38% are from the Department of Land Resource & Urban Governance and 20% are from the Department of Labor Security & Social Policy.

Figure 2 Enrollment of the CPM students by overseas graduate programs in 2017

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

lUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, United States

lCity University of New York, United States

l동아대학교 (Dong-A University, South Korea)

lUniversity of Calgary, Canada

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

lPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

    【Credit Program】Principles of Management Science, Human Resource Management, Political Science, Public Management, Theories and Methods in Social Survey, Public Administration, Public Policy, Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation Law, Electronic Governance, Administrative Ethics, Crisis Management, the National Civil Service System, Government Performance Management, the Science of Leadership, Executive Secretary Studies, Macroeconomics, Applications of Office Automation, Simulation Experiments of Public Administration Situations, etc.

lPUBLIC AFFAIRS MANAGEMENT

    【Credit Program】 Public Management, Principles of Management Science, Theories and Methods in Social Survey, Quantitative Analysis for Management, Project Management, Public Sector Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development and Management, Employee Recruitment and Performance Evaluation, Performance Management, Remuneration Management, Employee Relationship Management, Labor Law, etc.

lBUSINESS MANAGEMENT

    【Credit Program】Microeconomics, Principles of Management Science, Human Resource Management, Academic Salon and Scientific Paper Writing, Social Statistics, Public Management, Public Administration, Methods in Management Research, Organizational Behavior, Management Communication, Public Budgeting, Marketing, Macroeconomics, Business Management Communication, Corporate Governance and Operations, Case Studies in Business Management, Financial Management, etc.

lSOCIOLOGY

    【Credit Program】Western Sociological Theories, Theories and Methods in Social Research, Qualitative Research Methods, Quantitative Analysis, Statistical Analysis Using SPSS, Economic Sociology, Social Psychology, Organizational Sociology, Development Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Urban Sociology, Rural Sociology, Film and Television Studies and Sociology, Sociology of Consumption, Social Management, and Social Policy.

lSOCIAL WORK

    【Credit Program】 Introduction of Social Work, Introduction of Sociology, Theories and Methods of Social Investigation, Qualitative Research, Social Statistics, SPSS, Social Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Case Studies in Social Work, Group Work, Community Social Work, Ethics of Social Work, Social Security and Social Welfare, Social Policy, Adolescent Social Work, Gerontology, Social Work in Correctional Service, Social Work in Rural Area, etc.

lLABOR & SOCIAL SECURITY

    【Credit Program】Economics, Management Studies, Sociology, The policies and practices of Social Support, Social Security Fund Management, Social Security in Theory and Practice, International Comparison of Social Security Programs, Finance, Accounting, Actuarial Science, Theories of Economic Law, Labor Law and case analysis, Human Resource Management, Compensation Management and Design, etc.

lLAND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

    【Credit Program】 Real Estate Development and Operations, Planning Real Estate Marketing, Valuation of Immovable Property, Real Estate Investment Analysis, Real Estate Finance, Urban Planning, Real Estate Law, Construction Budgeting, Residential District Planning and Design, Engineering Project Management, Engineering Graphics, Building Construction, etc.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

lMASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (MPA)

      To prepare high-level, versatile and practical talents who are ready to meet the needs of global and international competition to work for government departments and non-governmental public organizations, departments responsible of social administration as well as for various kinds of business organizations.

      MPA Education Centre will continue to optimize the applied education philosophy, to establish itself locally and gear towards internationalization, and explore local high-quality specialists in public management capable of meeting the international requirements. Based on international perspective and using existing international cooperation channels the school is committed to building an internationally oriented education platform for MPA.

lMASTER OF SOCIAL WORK (MSW)

    Established in 2014, the MSW program, led by the value of “people oriented, help people to help themselves, fairness and justice,” prepares research talents and professional practitioners, who have outstanding facilities in planning, execution, supervision, evaluation and research in social work. The program offers two majors, which focuses on senior social work practice and social welfare respectively.

(Data updated on January 29^th 2020)