UCL STEaPP offers several full-time MPA programmes which cover a wide range of topics and subject areas. These MPAs generally follow the same overarching structure and share several core modules. This structure allows STEaPP to provide a consistency of experience and education, and to supplement this with specialist disciplinary content. The structure also facilitates broad discussion and a sharing of knowledge between MPA staff and students regardless of the broader disciplines they are pursuing. 


The MPA programmes being offered* for 2020 entry are


  • Digital Technologies and Policy MPA
  • Development, Technology and Innovation Policy MPA
  • Sustainable Infrastructures and Public Policy MPA
  • Urban Innovation and Policy MPA
  • Science, Engineering and Public Policy MPA
  • *Energy Technology and Public Policy MPA (with UCL Energy Institute) PENDING APPROVAL


An outline of the MPA structure is provided below. Please note that the structure below includes changes that have been proposed for 2020, which are currently pending approval. 



Term 1

  • Public Administration (All MPA Students)
  • Evidence for Decision Making (All MPA Students)
  • Policy Making (All MPA Students)
  • Route Specific Module (each MPA has a route and disciplinary specific module in term 1)


Term 2

  • Analytic Methods for Policy (All MPA Students)
  • Knowledge and Governance (All MPA Students)
  • Route Specific Module (each MPA has a route and disciplinary specific module in term 2)
  • Elective: Any UCL postgraduate module 


Term 2/3 


MPA Students have a choice of either

  • MPA Individual Project 
  • MPA Group Project