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Dear friends, can you please help me to know about the structure of PhD(Public Administration) course, which is available in Kurukshetra University? Kindly tell me about the course duration also so that I can apply for this course. Thank you!

Duration of PhD (Public Administration) in kurukshetra University is 3 years.

Course structure of PhD (Public Administration):

1st year

1) Organization theory and behavior in public administration research.
2) History and development of public administration.
3) Collaborative management and governance networks.
4) Bureaucracy and the polity process
5) Research design for public administration.
6) Advanced data analysis I
7) Public program evaluation
8) Advanced data analysis II
9) Qualitative research methods in public administration
10) Survey questionnaire design
11) Practicum in survey methodology
12) Survey data collection methods: Theory and practice
13) Seminars on special topics in Survey methodology
14) Applied survey sampling and analysis

2nd Year

1) Research design and evaluation.
2) Research topics in public administration I
3) Research topics in public administration II
4) Public management theory (required)
5) strategic management: planing and measurement
6) Ethics and accountability
7) Leadership in public organizations
8) Public policy analysis
9) Change and reform in public organizations
10) Labor management relations in the public sector
11) Managing workplace diversity
12) Human resource development and management in public administration
13) Intergovernmental management
14) Nonprofit history and theory of nonprofit sector.

3rd year

1) Financial Management in Public administration (required) Strategic management: Planing and measurement capital budgeting and finance.
2) State and local public finance intergovernmental management development finance analysis seminar on urban governance (required) public policy development and process state and local public finance intergovernmental management introduction to policy and governance seminar in urban politics urban space, place and institution surveys, public opinion and public policy(required).