BA Public Policy and Administration Hons at Jagran School of Public Policy and International Affairs, Bhopal Offline Course

The course aims to enable the students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the various dimensions of public policy and the role of governance in its implementation. The major objective of the program is to provide students with intellectual insights, critical perspectives, professional competence, and analytical tools crucial to their understanding of the field of public policy and public administration.

BA (Hons) Public Policy & Administration, analyses real world issues in public policy and public administration in context to such as poverty, social exclusion and global governance. It centers on understanding and addressing public issues in society and examines the formation and implementation of policy, and how this affects people’s wellbeing. As a multidisciplinary subject, it draws on theories and expertise from sociology, psychology, politics and economics.

The BA (Hons) Public Policy & Administration aims to provide a thorough understanding of how policies are formulated and implemented in industrialised societies, transition economies and the Global South. The programme takes a comparative, local, provincial and national and contemporary perspective: investigating the changing role of states, the non-profit sector, the market and informal providers like families and communities in producing social welfare.

You will study a broad range of fields from social, economic and political standpoints. These include citizenship, education, health and social care, international development and urbanisation as well as cross-cutting dimenations such as gender, ethnicity and the impact of globalization. You will examine issues such as poverty and wellbeing, levels of social protection and their eligibility conditions, the nature of private-public partnerships in health service provision, or the mix of public and private schools.

You can also choose to take a specialism in Development, which focuses on middle and low-income countries and the way in which social and public policy are discussed, produced and implemented to deal with inequalities and to increase wellbeing.