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INSTITUTIONAL SETTING

This section provides an overview of individual universities and their faculties from the point of view of public administration education. The quantity of information on these institutions varies due to their fragmentation into categories and, exceptionally, because of problems related to the availability of information from some faculties. There are several institutions with various types of public administration programmes in the Czech Republic, making it difficult to organise them according to any one characteristic. This report utilises the categorisations of the Ministry of the Interior (part of the draft government decree on “Education in Public Administration”). According to the Ministry, there are five universities with master’s degree programmes in public administration as defined for the purposes of this study, and graduates receive the title of “inženýr” (Ing.) or “magister” (Mgr.). Six universities offer bachelor’s degree programmes in public administration, leading to the title of “bakalar,” and several other institutions teach programmes that include public administration issues.

1. Category I: Master’s Degree Programmes

Table 1 summarises master’s degree programmes in public administration taught by five universities.

Table 1: Master’s Degree Programmes

University	Faculty	Programme	Duration (in years)
	Faculty of the National Economy	Public Administration and Regional Economy	5
Prague University of Economics	Faculty of Finance and Accounting	Public Finance	5
	Faculty of Management (Jindřichuv Hradec)	Management of Public Services	5
Masaryk University, Brno	Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, Department of Public Economics	Public Economics	5
	Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, Department of Regional Economics and Administration	Regional Development and Administration	5
Pardubice University	Faculty of Economics and Public Administration	Economic Policy and Administration; specialisations in: Public Economics and Administration; Informatics in the Public Administration	5
Institute of Mining Technology, Technical University of Ostrava	Faculty of Economics	Public Economics and Regional Development	5
Charles University, Prague	Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociological Studies	Public and Social Policy	2

2. Category II: Bachelor’s Degree Programmes

Many universities and schools are accredited only to offer bachelor’s degree programmes. Graduates may continue in accredited master’s programmes in one of the five universities outlined above or in any other master’s programme that admits them. Alternatively, graduates of bachelor’s programmes may elect to pursue employment. Table 2 summarises bachelor’s PA programmes in the Czech Republic.

Table 2: Bachelor’s Programmes

University	Faculty	Programme	Duration (in years)
West Bohemian University, Plzeň	Faculty of Law	Public Administration	3
Ostrava University, Ostrava	Faculty of Natural Science	Regional Development and Public Administration	3
Silesian University in Opava	Faculty of Arts and Natural Science in Opava	Public Administration and Regional Policy	3
	Faculty of Business and Trade in Karvina, Branch: Economic Policy and Administration	Public Economics and Administration	3
School of Pedagogics Hradec Králové	Faculty of Pedagogics	Social Communication in the Public Administration Social Communication in Protection of Municipalities and Citizens	3
J. E. Purkyně University Ústí nad Labem	Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences	Economics and Management of Enterprise, specialisation in Regional Development; Social Policy and Social Work, specialisation in Social Work

3. Category III: Master’s and Bachelor’s Programmes Related to Public Administration Not Included in the Government Decree

Table 3 summarises master’s and bachelor’s degree programmes related to public administration, but which were not categorised in the government decree on public administration education.

Table 3: Master’s and Bachelor’s Programmes Related to Public Administration Not Included in the Government Decree

University	Faculty	Programme	Duration (in years)
	Faculty of Natural Sciences	Social Geography and Regional Development	Master’s
Charles University, Prague	Faculty of Social Sciences	Sociology and Social Policy	Bachelor’s
	Institute of Fundamentals of Education, Faculty of Arts	Humanities (including ethnic minorities and social administration)	Bachelor’s
	Institute of Fundamentals of Education, Faculty of Arts	General Anthropology (including state administration and international economic and cultural relations of the Czech Republic and Southeast Europe)	Master’s
Ostrava University in Ostrava	Faculty of Natural Sciences	Geography (including social geography and regional development)
Masaryk University, Brno	Faculty of Natural Sciences	Geography and Cartography (including economic geography and regional development)
Palacký University, Olomouc	Faculty of Natural Sciences	Geography and Information in Geography
Institute of Mining Technology – Technical University, Ostrava	Faculty of Mining Technology and Geology	Economics, Management and Information in Public Administration	Bachelor’s
Czech Agricultural University, Prague	Faculty of Business and Economics	Business Economics and Administration (including territorial administration)	Bachelor’s
		Business Economics and Economics (including sociology and social policy)	Master’s
J. E. Purkyně University Ústí nad Labem	Faculty of Environmental Studies	Organisation and Administration of Environmental Control	Bachelor’s
Silesian University in Opava	Faculty of Business and Trade in Karviná	Business Economics, Commerce and Services (oriented towards the European Union)	Bachelor’s
West Bohemian University, Plzeň	Faculty of Economics	Economics of the Tertiary Sphere	Bachelor’s
		Economics of Enterprise	Master’s
Institute of Technology, Brno	Faculty of Management and Economics (Zlín)	Management and Economics	Master’s

4. Category IV: Faculties of Law with Programmes Including Public Administration Topics

Four faculties of law offer programmes that include various public administration topics:

• West Bohemian University in Plzeň, Faculty of Law;
• Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Law;
• Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law;
• Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Law.

5. Category V: Other Universities and Schools with Public Administration-Related Programmes

In addition to the universities mentioned above, the following institutions and faculties offer programmes related to public administration:

• Technical University in Liberec, Faculty of Economics;
• Mendele University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics;
• Military Institute in Vyškov, Faculty of Economics of State Defence;
• South Bohemian University in České Budějovice, Faculty of Agriculture;
• Czech Institute of Technology in Prague, Faculty of Construction, Faculty of Architecture;
• Institute of Technology in Brno, Faculty of Construction, Faculty of Architecture;
• Pardubice University, Jan Perner Faculty of Transport;
• School of Pedagogic Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Management and Information Technologies;
• Police Academy of the Czech Republic.

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