The Department of Public and Healthcare Administration (DPHA) offers the Masters in Public Administration (M.P.A.), the Masters in Healthcare Administration (M.H.A) and graduate certificates in healthcare administration, nonprofit management, and arts administration. Students working toward the M.P.A. choose one of four concentrations: government and leadership; nonprofit organization management, arts administration, or healthcare administration. Both masters degrees require 39 graduate credits, while the certificate programs require 15 credits. Students who complete one of the certificate programs can apply all earned credits toward one of the two masters degrees if they are accepted into the degree program. Courses are offered in the late afternoons and evenings, on alternate Saturdays, and online to accommodate the schedules of working professionals.

The department offers a 60-credit dual degree program with the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations leading to both M.A. and M.P.A. degrees, and five-year B.A./M.P.A. degree programs with select undergraduate majors in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. The department also co-sponsors, with the Stillman School of Business, the M.B.A. degree with a concentration in healthcare administration.

The M.P.A. is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA).  Its Nonprofit Organization Management concentration has been listed among the top ten in the country by U.S. News & World Report for many years.

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Our faculty conduct internationally recognized research and innovative, technologically-enhanced instruction. Grounded in practical experience but exploring the frontiers of their disciplines, they are models of nature academic excellence.

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Jubilee Hall. With six stories and more than 126,000 square feet of academic space, this structure provides a home for the Stillman School of Business, the College of Education and Human Services, the New Jersey Center for Civic and Law-Related Education and the Departments of Political Science, Psychology, Public and Healthcare Administration and Sociology and Anthropology. It contains 156 faculty and administrative offices and 30 teaching spaces, from seminar rooms that seat eight people to an auditorium seating 390. It also features a central, three-story skylit atrium where students and faculty can congregate informally. A major feature of the building is the technological capabilities it brings to the teaching and learning processes. These include fixed and flexible seating classrooms with the most contemporary information and distance-learning technologies that facilitate the transmission of lectures all over the world; laboratories with one-way observation mirrors; and classrooms with terminals for portable computers.

The University Libraries have notable resources, including extensive holdings of almost 700,000 book volumes, and 1,127 current periodical subscriptions, back-files of more than 6,500 serial titles, electronic access to full text articles in more than 25,000 journals, a broad selection of indexing and abstracting services in both digital and print formats, various microform collections, music CDs, and audiovisual aids. A complete listing of database resources can be found at library.shu.edu.