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Initial Bulgarian State Requirements for Four-Year Undergraduate (BA) PA Programmes, 1997-1999

The following is the initial 1997 list of compulsory teaching subjects and minimum required contact hours for all PA programmes in the country.

Subject	Minimum Contact Hours
Basics of Management	120
Human Resources Management	60
Communications and Public Relations	60
Control in Public Administration	60
Economics	120
Finance	90
Accounting	90
Introduction to Law	60
Basics of Public Law	120
Basics of Private Law	90
Law of the EU	45
Basics of Politics and Public Power	60
State Power and State Administration	90
Local Power and Administration	60
State Policy and Strategies	60
Sociology	60
Regional Studies	60
Quantitative Methods in Management	60
Information Systems and Technologies	120
Total:	1,485 (two full academic years)

According to the official government’s “Registrar of Scientific Fields and Disciplines,” which accompanies the state requirements for each discipline, public administration was placed under the general heading of “Economics,” in the “Management” subgroup, alongside “Business Administration” (i.e., Public and Business Administration jointly comprise a sub-field of Economics).

Revised Bulgarian State Requirements for Four-Year Undergraduate (BA) PA Programmes, 1999-Present

The following is the revised list, effective from 1999, of compulsory teaching subjects and minimum required contact hours for all PA programmes.

Subject	Minimum Contact Hours
Basics in Governance	60
Human Resources Management	45
Economics of the Public Sector	60
Public Finance	75
Accountancy	60
Basics of Public Administration	45
Constitutional Law	60
Administrative Law and Process	75
Basics of Civil Law	45
EU Law	45
State Policy and Public Power	60
Local Self-Government	60
Strategic Management in the Public Sphere	60
Sociology and Psychology of Management	60
Regional Economics	45
Statistics	45
Information Systems and Technologies	60
Total	960

 According to the official government’s “Registrar of Scientific Fields and Disciplines,” which accompanies the state requirements for each discipline, public administration was placed under the general heading of “Economics,” in the “Management” subgroup, alongside “Business Administration” (i.e., Public and Business Administration jointly comprise a sub-field of Economics).