Before Year 1

Introductory course

PP407 Pre-Sessional Coding and Mathematics Bootcamp (0.0)

Year 1

Paper 1

PP440 Micro and Macro Economics (for Public Policy) (1.0)

Or Upon satisfactorily demonstrating prior knowledge of Micro and Macro Economics, students may be exempted from PP440 and will be free to take an additional unit of option course subject to the approval of the Programme Director.

Paper 2

PP478 Political Science for Public Policy (1.0)

Paper 3

PP455 Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis (1.0)

Paper 4

PP422 Data Science for Public Policy (1.0) #

Year 2

Paper 5

PP4B5 Capstone Project: MPA - Data Science for Public Policy (1.0)

Paper 6

PP415 Technology, Data Science and Policy (0.5) #

Paper 7

1.0 or 1.5 unit(s) from Public Policy:

PP406 Philosophy for Public Policy (0.5)

PP410 Public Economics for Public Policy (0.5) #

PP411A Political Entrepreneurship (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP411W Political Economy Applications for Public Policy (0.5) #

PP412 Cold War II? Public Policy Implications of US-China Relations in the 2020s (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP413 Growth Diagnostics in Development: Theory and Practice (0.5) #

PP414 Policy-Making: Process, Challenges and Outcomes (0.5)

PP414W Policy-Making: Process, Challenges and Outcomes (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

PP416 Designing Democracy (0.5) #

PP417A The Practice of Effective Climate Policy (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP417W Economic Principles of Climate Change (0.5)

PP418 Globalisation and Economic Policy (0.5) #

PP419 Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis (0.5) #

PP423 Anticipatory Policymaking (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP424 Happiness and Public Policy (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP425 Strategic Policymaking: Economic Analysis, Narrative Development, Political Feasibility, and Implementation (0.5)

PP426 Public Policy for Blockchains and Digital Assets (0.5) #

PP431 Reimagining Capitalism (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP432 International policymaking, diplomacy and security (0.5)

PP433 Topics in Model Based Quantitative Analysis for Public Policy (0.5) #

PP434 Automated Data Visualisation for Policymaking (0.5)

PP435 Trade Policy and Development (0.5) #

PP448 International Political Economy and Development (0.5)

PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP450 Public Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

PP452 Applying Behavioural Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Policy (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

PP454 Development Economics (1.0) # (suspended 2026/27)

PP465 City-Making: the Politics of Urban Form (0.5)

PP4E5 Innovations in the governance of public services delivery (0.5)

PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

PP4J2 New Institutions of Public Policy: Strategic Philanthropy, Impact Investment and Social Enterprise (0.5)

PP4J4 Designing and Implementing Evidence-Informed Policies and Programmes (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (0.5)

PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

Paper 8

A B

1.0 or 1.5 unit(s) from Data Sciences:

GY460 Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis (0.5) #

HP434 Methods and Data for Health Systems Performance Assessment (0.5)

MA402 Mathematical Game Theory (0.5) #

MA407 Algorithms and Computation (0.5) #

MA423 Optimisation Theory and Modelling (0.5) #

MY459 Computational Text Analysis and Large Language Models (0.5) #

MY461 Social Network Analysis (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

MY474 Applied Machine Learning for Social Science (0.5) #

MY475 Applied Deep Learning for Social Science (0.5) #

ST416 Multilevel Modelling (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis (0.5) #

ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining (0.5) #

ST446 Distributed Computing for Big Data (0.5) #

ST449 Artificial Intelligence (0.5) #

ST454 Bayesian Data Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

ST455 Reinforcement Learning (0.5) #

ST456 Deep Learning (0.5) #

MY472 Data for Data Scientists (0.5)

ST445 Managing and Visualising Data (0.5) #