If your goal is to become a city manager or the leader of a charity, public agency, or nonprofit organization, the online MPA from Anna Maria College can help. We've adapted the leadership and business skills you'd earn with an MBA to the needs of public administrators.

Customize your degree according to your background and professional interests with:

• Experienced professionals may be eligible for the Mid-Career MPA, allowing them to complete their degree in 30 credit hours.
• Along with the general MPA, specializations are available to enhance your degree: Management, Fire Science Management, Health Care Administration and Justice Administration.

Emergency Management Specialization
The Emergency Management program at Anna Maria College is one of the oldest and most well-established of its kind in the country. Our comprehensive and balanced curriculum is complemented by experienced instructors who are well-versed in both the history of and current trends in the field.

Fire Science Management Specialization
AMC's programs have a long and respected history of educating fire service professionals. Graduates have gone on to work as fire chiefs, fire investigators, and other management positions in the field.

Health Care Administration Specialization
For leaders in the public sector and non-profit worlds, an understanding of how the healthcare industry works is essential to defining policy and creating community outreach programs. AMC's Master of Public Administration with a Health Care Administration specialization provides insights into the legal issues, economics and other topics behind this industry.

Justice Administration Specialization
This specialization helps students analyze issues of law, policy and society to develop strategies regarding issues facing practitioners in the human service and criminal justice professions.
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The havoc and damage created by natural and man-made disasters can be minimized with effective emergency planning. Anna Maria College's Master of Public Administration with an Emergency Management specialization is intended for leaders in the public sector who wish to gain a better understanding of preparing for and dealing with these events.

• Experienced professionals may be eligible for the Mid-Career MPA, allowing them to complete their degree in 30 credit hours.
• Courses include topics such as the essentials of emergency management, executive leadership and management policies in government finance.
• Classes are taught in a convenient online format, allowing students to balance school with work and life.

Our comprehensive and balanced curriculum is complemented by experienced instructors who are well-versed in both the history of and current trends in the field, including the importance of planning for all types of hazards and events.

To move into the upper ranks of the fire service field, you must not only have the knowledge to anticipate and plan for today's complex emergency scenarios, you must also display the administrative and people skills of an effective leader. Anna Maria College's Master of Public Administration with a Fire Science Management specialization is designed for experienced firefighters, officers, and other fire-service professionals who want to move into management and high-level positions.

• Experienced professionals may be eligible for the Mid-Career MPA, allowing them to complete their degree in 30 credit hours.
• Courses include topics such as the essentials of emergency management, executive leadership and management policies in government finance.
• Classes are taught in a convenient online format, allowing students to balance school with work and life.

Anna Maria College has a long and respected history of educating fire service professionals. Our graduates have gone on to work as fire chiefs, fire investigators, and in other management positions in the field.

Designed with law enforcement officials in mind, Anna Maria College's Master of Public Administration with a Justice Administration specialization balances the leadership and organizational aspects of public service with the specific needs of the justice community.

• Experienced professionals may be eligible for the Mid-Career MPA, allowing them to complete their degree in 30 credit hours.
• Courses include topics such as community partnerships, justice and public policy, management policies in government finance and organizational theories.
• Classes are taught in a convenient online format, allowing students to balance school with work and life.

Anna Maria's faculty is made up of working professionals with experience in the field. You'll have the opportunity to gain experience from men and women who hold the jobs you're looking for.

Take your nursing career to a higher level with AMC's RN to BSN program designed by top nursing professionals especially for working nurses like you. Our Bachelor of Science in Nursing connects you with leaders in both nursing education and the healthcare field. 
We value your nursing experience.

You'll value ours:

• AMC grants credits for your nursing expertise as an RN and your previous coursework. Learn about our transfer credit options. 
• AMC knows that not all nurses are created equal, experience matters. No traditional clinical component required. 
• AMC is a wise investment for the working nurse. 
• AMC's curriculum requires very few non-nursing classes. Nursing education is our focus. 
• AMC offers a flexible and practical route for working nurses to achieve their goal. 
• AMC is accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc.

With a growing emphasis on health care reform, leaders in the public sector are called on to understand the political, cultural and economic factors that influence policies on this issue. Anna Maria College's Master of Public Administration with a Health Care Administration specialization is an effective way to gain the general leadership skills and health-care specific knowledge public administrators need to successfully further their careers.

• Experienced professionals may be eligible for the Mid-Career MPA, allowing them to complete their degree in 30 credit hours.
• Courses include topics such as the economics and financing of health care, executive leadership and legal issues in health care.
• Classes are taught in a convenient online format, allowing students to balance school with work and life.

Anna Maria's faculty is made up of working professionals with experience in the field. You'll have the opportunity to gain experience from men and women who hold the jobs you're looking for.

At the local, national and international level, threats to our homeland’s security continue to evolve and morph. A new generation of vigilant leaders requires a new mission for education.  Anna Maria College is proud to offer a new online Concentration and Certificate in Homeland Security in our Master of Public Administration program. Created and taught by highly respected experts in the field, this program offers returning vets and working professionals the edge to advance their careers in this growing market segment as well as the convenience of online flexibility.  These are credentials worth looking into for those who wish to stand strong for our country’s security, whatever tomorrow may bring.

The building of national security has taken on great importance in this day and age.  To succeed, professionals must be well educated on ethical and social issues of security, liberty, risk assessment and vulnerability, motivation, multiagency cooperation, intelligence cycles, victimization and fear, technology, resource management, and media/ mass communication informing them through the various processes and resources available while developing best practices, programs and policies in response.  To address these issues, Anna Maria College has developed a Graduate Certificate/Concentration in Homeland Security. 

Students enrolled in the Homeland Security Program have two options:  a stand-alone Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security for those looking beyond the undergraduate level and outside a degree program; or as a concentration under the Master of Public Administration Program at Anna Maria.