The Department of Public Administration and Business Management is a structural subdivision of the Faculty of Financial and Business Management of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and is is one of the graduation departments of the Faculty in the training of highly qualified specialists of educational levels of BA and MA of specialty 281 “Public Management and Administration” of the educational-professional program “Public Administration and Business Management” according to full-time form of studying and by correspondence. On November 27, 2019 (Protocol № 77/11) by the order of the Rector (№ 0-160 of December 17, 2019) the Department of Economics and Management of the Faculty of Financial and Business Management was renamed from 01.01.2020 to the Department of Public Administration and Business Management.
The Department’s mission is quality preparation and organization of the educational process with due attention to modern achievements of science and practice in the specialty 281 “Public Management and Administration”, educational and professional program “Public Administration and Business Management”, which will allow professionals to take their rightful place in society, successfully work in the specialty in the development of Ukraine and implement progressive practices of public administration at the level of individual organizations, cities, regions and the country as a whole.
Public management and administration is an area related to solving strategic tasks of government agencies, enterprises, institutions and organizations, taking into account a set of external and internal factors and trends in development in a particular environment, as well as in certain areas of social production and the country as a whole.
The objective of the educational program “Public Administration and Business Management” is to train qualified and competitive professionals in the labor market for government institutions, NGOs, public authorities and local governments with a high level of professional competence in public-private sector skills, who will have the ability to develop and implement management decisions; implement public policy through the involvement of the private sector to solve socially significant problems using appropriate tools and technologies.
Applicants for higher education in the educational program “Public Administration and Business Management”: have development skills and implementation of management decisions; are able to analyze public policy and develop measures for its implementation; understand the basic principles and mechanisms of reform implementation, as well as mechanisms of interaction between the state, business and the public; know the structure and features of public authorities at the state, regional and local levels; are able to study, evaluate and compare domestic and foreign practices of public authorities in the field of e-government in order to form specific recommendations and proposals for the development of the state; take an active part in scientific activities, in particular in the cathedral scientific group “Derzhavotvorets”.
In 2016, the Department successfully passed the licensing procedure for educational activities at the educational levels of “bachelor” and “master” of specialty 281 “Public Administration”.
In 2018, the Department of Public Administration and Business Management successfully accredited the educational program “Public Administration” to train applicants for the second (master’s) level of higher education in specialty 281 “Public Administration”.
In 2021, the Department of Public Administration and Business Management successfully accredited the educational and professional training program for applicants for the second (master’s) level of higher education “Public Administration and Business Management”, specialty 281 “Public administration and business management”
Today the educational process at the Department is arranged by three doctors of sciences and 4 candidates. Percentage of lecturers of the Department with scientific degrees of Doctor / Candidate of Sciences – 100% of the total number of lecturers of the Department.
Contacts of the department:
Address: (room 501-502), 3 Nicolaus Copernicus Street, Lviv, 79000
Faculty of Finance Management and Business
tel. (032) 251-23-94
email: pabm.dep.financial@lnu.edu.ua
https://www.facebook.com/dep.public.administration/


