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Student Outcomes
The values and tenets of the College of Business and Public Management inspire the faculty to seek two primary goals for DPA Students:
- You will gain knowledge and skills in such areas as leadership, conflict management, ethics, decision making, and management processes. This will prepare you to assume greater management responsibility.
- You will learn methodologies that will better enable you to approach a variety of issues from the perspectives of logical inquiry, critical thinking, and systematic problem solving.
The DPA prepares you to assume vital roles as outstanding, insightful contributors to the public and service sectors. The curriculum offers state-of-the-art management courses that stress creativity, responsible leadership, values, and the essential abilities to anticipate, interpret, and manage the rampant change in the workplace of today and tomorrow.
By focusing on its values and tenets and by developing a respected academic program, the College faculty aims to help you, the doctoral candidate, become recognized as a valued, highly-skilled manager who is esteemed as a thoughtful, intelligent leader and a scholarly practitioner in your professional career as well as in your personal life.
What makes the DPA program unique is the synergy created by the enthusiasm, knowledge, and experience of a gifted, imaginative, multi-disciplinary faculty added to a talented, highly-diverse international and domestic student population. The program seeks to gather intelligent, professional adult practitioners and professors. Each participant contributes to an ever-expanding richness of comparative and international experiences.
Profiling the DPA Student
The DPA program was established in 1982 and has graduated over 180. The Doctor of Public Administration program at the University of La Verne has a student body of over 65. Of this group, about 10% are international students, while 50% are female. The average age of the students in the program is 40, and over 65% work as managers, administrators, or entrepreneurs.
