CES Resolution: RPC-SO-04-No. 084-2020
Acuerdo de los ajustes curriculares no sustantivos: ACU-CPP-SO-09-No.91-2026

Modality

Online

Entry Profile:

The programme is aimed at professionals holding an undergraduate degree duly registered with SENESCYT. Preferably in the broad field: Administration. Specific field: Business Education and Administration. Detailed field: Administration. Additionally, professionals working in areas such as Administration, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Economics, Hospitality, Marketing, Public Relations and Management, and those with extensive experience in the public sector.

Graduate Profile:

Competence 1: Apply concepts, theories, and models from various disciplines in the practice of public management. This is developed through learning outcomes such as integrating a worldview of public action based on theories of human talent management, public management behaviour, micro- and macroeconomic scenarios in governmental corporate management, public ethical responsibility, and local government reengineering theories.

Competence 2: Analyse complex social and political phenomena relevant to public management, developed through learning outcomes such as:

• Apply competitive strategies enabling public organisations to engage in current social activity
• Apply social strategies that promote social entrepreneurship initiatives
• Develop hypotheses, adjust models and variables to minimise risks based on statistical projections
• Design social consultancy models with innovative criteria
• Apply public administration strategies aligned with governmental corporate direction
• Evaluate accounting and management information of entities to determine their capacity for compliance
• Analyse the internal structure of institutions according to social realities
• Diagnose accounting, budgetary, and control issues to design alternative solutions
• Plan social activities and institutional capacity in public organisations
• Apply strategies for social financing, public investment, risk, and public budget costs
• Apply regulations to institutional management activities
• Implement development projects in the social and public sector and publish and disseminate results in indexed high-impact journals

Competence 3: Analyse public policies across different sectoral areas. Supported by learning outcomes such as:

• Use scientific and technical tools to understand the functioning of public institutions
• Apply public management knowledge to improve human talent management, budget strategies, executive management, budget planning, social responsibility, legal frameworks, and local government reengineering
• Ensure state entities engage in their assigned roles
• Apply development projects in family and social economy contexts
• Apply public management skills to improve processes and enhance organisational competitiveness with environmental social responsibility
• Use social media for open local government management

Competence 4: Apply appropriate methodological techniques for rigorous analysis of aspects related to public intervention in society and the economy. The programme promotes:

• Construction of useful knowledge for the environment through responsible ethical behaviour
• Disciplined acquisition of knowledge for proper and supportive management of public budgets
• Promotion of nature’s rights as an integrative principle guiding human practice
• Ethical responsibility in public administration
• Creative spirit, social entrepreneurship, and critical vision of social processes
• Respect for cultural values, traditions, and customs
• Understanding public service as a social function involving state responsibilities
• Innovative mindset and teamwork development
• Respect for human rights, interculturality, and the environment
• Promotion of transparency in public management

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Integration of human rights, environmental respect, and enrichment of traditional cultures in public management.
• Design and implementation of community projects that promote participation and healthy culture.
• Design of contextualised strategies for inclusive sociocultural practices.
• Implementation of projects that respect diversity and promote the relationship between knowledge and life.
• Planning and execution of dialogue spaces for local development and leadership.
• Development of action-research projects with ethical commitment to social transformation and environmental care.

General Objective

To train competent professionals with quality standards to address issues related to social participation, lack of awareness of laws, budgetary participation, and decentralisation and concentration, ensuring that public entities fulfil their social function with social responsibility, thereby promoting the ethical culture of public management.

Specific Objectives

• To promote theoretical and methodological training in the area of public management, focusing on classical administrative theory and human relations, based on the systems, contingency, and complexity approaches through knowledge from various disciplines, in order to play a leading role and lead actions aimed at achieving excellence in public management.
• To develop professional competencies through methodologies, strategies, and practices to solve public management issues, by applying innovative strategies that lead to the mitigation of social impacts, through the application of innovation programmes aimed at mitigating social problems, in order to improve social participation processes from an ethical culture perspective.
• To strengthen professional training from a holistic perspective, by competencies and based on meaningful learning through didactic techniques and tools that allow understanding and deepening knowledge in public administration with social responsibility.
• To value the problems of public administration from a responsible perspective that respects cultural diversity, ancestral knowledge, intercultural technology, and the guidelines of the National Whole Life Plan. Through the values of ethical culture, given in responsibility, transparency, dialogue, and tolerance.

Class times:

Saturdays: 08:00 - 17:00
Sunday: 08:00 - 17:00

Modules:

• Public Sector Research Design and Evaluation
• Statistical Data Analysis in Public Administration
• Human Capital Management for Public Enterprises
• Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation for the Public Sector
• Legal Foundations of Public Administration
• GovTech
• Economics, Fiscal Policy, and Public Finance
• Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Public Policies
• Citizen Participation and Transparency Management
• Degree Workshop