Refining the skills that are essential if you are to move into a management position within a public authority, or consolidating what you have learned professionally in order to progress in your career: these are the objectives of the two specialisations in the Master 2 in Public Management, which students can choose from depending on their career path.
The Master’s in Public Management provides a professional training programme that enables students to take up category A positions in the civil service and to become operational in general administration, management and administrative service management functions.
The Master 2 programme is organised around two types of pathway which meet different training objectives.
The “Management of Public Organisations” (MOP) programme focuses on the team management and change management issues faced by public sector executives. It is aimed primarily at students on sandwich courses or continuing education who wish to learn about the managerial aspects of their job.
The Management of Administrative Services (GSA) programme is designed to train managers of administrative services to be immediately operational, with a particular emphasis on the use of legal and administrative knowledge. At the end of their M2 course, students will be able to find and mobilise resources to solve the practical problems they will have to face when they take up a position in the Administration. In order to achieve this objective, the teaching usually takes the form of solving practical cases, and the examinations also take this form.
In the second year of the Master’s programme, the ‘Management of Public Organisations’ track, the emphasis is on the issues of team management and change management faced by working public sector executives. The course draws on a range of management science disciplines, such as human resources management, public marketing, public finance, strategic management, etc. To contribute to this objective of training managerial staff, the teaching method places considerable emphasis on case studies and individual or group work.
This second year responds to the major need to strengthen and renew the skills of experienced or young professionals, capable of supporting the management of a public structure through their expertise and their ability to meet the requirements of good management, quality and regular adaptation (redeployment of services, major projects, GPEC, change management, management control, audit, evaluation, etc.).
The following skills are expected at the end of the cycle:
Holders of a Master’s degree in Public Management will have mastered :
The student association specific to the Public Management Masters is the IAE Nancy Public Management Masters Student Association (EMP).
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PACE OF TRAINING
The Master’s programme is professionalised by means of a 3 to 6 month work placement or a sandwich course in a public administration, as well as by the involvement of professionals from the public sector.
In the M2 MOP Pathway, courses are grouped into “4-day weeks” per month (12 sessions in total over 1 or 2 years) and according to subject area.
START OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR: Early September
Context and Principles of Public Management (9 ECTS)
Strategic and Financial Approaches to Public Policy (6 ECTS)
Public marketing and communication (6 ECTS)
Professional development 1 (9 ECTS)
Human Resource Management in Organisations (3 ECTS)
Change Management in Public Organisations (3 ECTS)
Transformations in Public Policy (6 ECTS)
Professional Development 2 (18 ECTS)
Employees, jobseekers, the self-employed
Continuing vocational training enables all employees, whatever their professional or personal situation, to update their skills and promote their professional development.
Whether you’re an employee, a jobseeker or self-employed, you can obtain a diploma, a short or long training course leading to a qualification, either face-to-face or by distance learning, on a sandwich course, or you can take part in a validation of prior learning scheme…
The Master 2 in Public Management is available as part of a Continuing Education programme, or as part of a Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience (VAE) or Validation des Acquis Professionnels et Personnels (VAPP) programme.
Our Professional Integration and Career Development Department will help you with your plans to return to education by offering you personalised interviews, guiding you through our range of training courses and informing you about the funding available depending on your status.
Learn moreHolders of a Master’s degree in Public Management can manage the administrative and/or financial department of a local authority, a State administration, a public institution or an organisation working in conjunction with them (legal or operational department), supervise the work of category B and C administrative staff, analyse and summarise legislative and regulatory documents for senior managers in local authorities, State administrations, public institutions or for senior managers in organisations working in conjunction with them. They are in direct contact with elected representatives to implement public policies and with companies, businesses or individuals that are partners of public authorities. They carry out research, using legal databases in particular, and draft memos for public authority staff or employees of organisations working with them.
Examples of positions held :
employment rate 18 months after graduation
of graduates feel that their job matches their field of study
Surveys on the future and professional integration of graduates carried out by the Observatoire de la Vie Étudiante de l’Université de Lorraine.
Student exchange programmes (Erasmus +, bilateral programmes) enable students to gain international experience as part of their university studies. They also prepare qualified young people with an open mind and cross-cultural experience for a career in an increasingly international environment.
IAE NANCY has around forty agreements with foreign universities. Every year, around 30 IAE NANCY students spend an academic semester abroad.
Eligibility is based on an application and admission is based on an interview.
Prerequisites :
Employees, jobseekers, the self-employed
The Master 2 in Public Management is available as part of a Continuing Education programme, or as part of a Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience (VAE) or Validation des Acquis Professionnels et Personnels (VAPP) programme.
Learn moreFor Campus en France applicants, please consult this page: https: //www.campusfrance.org/fr/candidature-procedure-etudes-en-france
For European students undergoing initial training, registration fees for national diplomas are set annually by ministerial decree. In 2026, they will amount to :
There is also a Student and Campus Life Contribution of €105 in 2025/2026. This contribution must be paid by students not receiving a grant to cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr
