Master’s Study – Public Administration

Quick Facts
Duration: 2 years
ECTS: 120
Professional title: magister/magistrica javne uprave
Abbreviation: mag. jav. upr.
Enrolment Criteria
The master’s study programme Public Administration and the International and diplomatic studies can enroll who successfully finished:
- the study programme of the first degree of the equivalent expert areas (according to the international standard classification ISCED, these are all programmes from the law area (38), social sciences (31) and business and management sciences (34) and before the Bologna system in the Republic of Slovenia),
- study programme of the first degree from the area of the humanities (22) or other expert areas (in that case, the candidate has to pass the next differential exams: Basics of Law, Basics of Constitutional regulation, Basics of Civic Law),
- who finished the study programme of the first degree (or to gain higher education) before 11 June 2004 of other expert areas, however, they have to pass the bridging examinations which are selected by the Commission for study affairs according to the expertise of the previous study.
The conditions and terms of enrolment are also fulfilled if a person finishes the equivalent education abroad.
Enrolment Places
FOR CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA AND CITIZENS OF MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
70 full-time study enrolment positions and 70 for part-time study.
FOR ETHNIC SLOVENIANS WITHOUT SLOVENIAN CITIZENSHIP AND CITIZENS OF THIRD STATES
7 full-time study enrolment positions and 35 for part-time study.
PARALLEL STUDYING
12 part-time study places.
Curriculum – 1st year
- Constitutional and International Human Rights Law
- Democratic and Rule-of-Law State
- Juridical regulation of Public Administration
- Administrative Systems
- Administrative Procedural Law
- European Administrative Law
Curriculum – 2nd year – Administrative-Organizational Field
- Mater’s Research Project
- Modernization of Public Administration
- Labour Law
- Optional course – semester 3
- Optional course – semester 4
- MA thesis – semester 4
Curriculum – 2nd year – Administrative-Procedural Field
- Mater’s Research Project
- Constitutional Court Protection
- Administrative Court Protection
- Optional course – semester 3
- Optional course – semester 4
- MA thesis – semester 4
Elective Courses
- Tax Procedural Law
- Management and Economics in Public Sector
- Ethics in Public Life
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- National Security System of the Republic of Slovenia
- Minor Offence Body Procedures