Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management

Enhance your performance as a manager with advanced knowledge of the theory and strategies behind best practice in public management.

With a Master of Public Management you’ll become a more effective public manager and build your ability to influence the strategic and operational direction of public-sector organisations. Learn about governance and public-sector reform, and how to manage budgets, finances, and organisational capital.

Gain the knowledge and skills to design and implement innovative and effective programmes and services, including planning, service delivery, and monitoring and evaluation.

Our engagement with government agencies will offer you a window into the management processes that influence the strategic and operational direction of public-sector organisations.

Join Dr Flavia de Mattos Donadelli, who is an academic that teaches on the Master of Public Management, for a short lecture on good performance management in the public sector.

Entry requirements

To be accepted into this programme you need:

A Bachelor's degree

At least two years of relevant work experience in the public sector

To be accepted by the programme director as capable of proceeding with the proposed course of study

IELTS (Academic): minimum overall score of 6.5 with no sub-score below 6.0

TOEFL: minimum score of 90 for the internet-based test with a minimum of 20 in writing

Pearson Test of English: minimum score of 58 (with a ‘Communicative’ score of not less than 50)

Victoria University of Wellington English for Academic Purpose (EAP) programme: minimum final scores of 4,4,5,5

Cambridge English Qualifications: C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a score of 176 or higher, with each skill score no less than 169

New Zealand Certificates in English Language (NZCEL): Level 5 (Academic)

NZAPA: English New Zealand Accredited Pathway Assessment Level 3 (with no skill lower than Level 2)