BA-MPA Program

The Wagner School and NYU undergraduate College of Arts and Science (CAS) offer a combined degree program for students to earn the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Administration degrees in five years. Students may complete a maximum 28 of the 60 credits required for the Wagner MPA while they are still undergraduates. These 28 credits should include the five Wagner core courses or the designated CAS equivalents, along with two specialization courses/program core courses.

Students must earn a grade of B or better in each course taken at CAS in order for the credits to be transferred to the MPA.

Students must enroll in the joint degree program while they are still matriculated in the College of Arts and Science, and they must formally apply to the MPA prior to their graduation from CAS.

Those students entering the program with less than two years of full-time, relevant work experience must complete the Professional Experience Requirement once matriculated at Wagner.

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BA-MUP Program

The Wagner School and the College of Arts and Science offer a combined BA-MUP degree as well. CAS undergraduates in one of five relevant majors are eligible:  Economics, International Relations, Metropolitan Studies, Sociology and Urban Design.

BA/MPA and BA/MUP Course Equivalents
Wagner Core Course CAS Equivalent (choice of)
CORE-GP 1011 Statistical Methods

ECON-UA 0018 Statistics (Economics)
POL-UA 0800 Quantitative Methods in Political Science (Politics)

MAP-UA 0105 Quantitative Reasoning: Statistics
PSYCH-UA 0009 Statistical Reasoning for the Behavioral Sciences (Psychology)
PSYCH-UA 0010 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Psychology - formerly V89.0009)
SOC-UA 0302 Statistics for Social Research (Sociology)

CORE-GP 1018 Microeconomics ECON-UA 0001 and ECON-UA 0002 Economic Principles I & II
ECON-UA 0010 Intermediate Microeconomics
CORE-GP 1020 Managing Public Service Organizations UPADM-GP 0103 Introduction to Managing Public Service Organizations
SOC-UA 0130 Groups and Organizations and either PSYCH -UA0062 Industrial and Organizational Psychology or MGMT-UB 0007 Organizational Behavior
CORE-GP 1022 Introduction to Public Policy

UPADM-GP 0101 The Politics of Public Policy: City, Nation, Globe
SCA-UA 0610 Law and Urban Problems (Metropolitan Studies - formerly V99.0232)
POL-UA 0300 Power & Politics in America (Politics)

POL-UA 0306 Public Policy (Politics)
POL-UA 0354 The Politics of Administrative Law (Politics)