“…A quick review of recent literature would show that public administration scholars and practitioners considered a range of essential courses/ areas for the MPA/MPP curriculum. These courses/areas include comparative public administration (Manoharan et al, 2018), data science (Overton and Kleinschmit, 2022), financial condition analysis (Maher et al, 2020), e-government and information technology (McQuiston and Manoharan, 2021), ethics (Baradei, 2021;Fuertes, 2021), project-based quantitative method (Cordova et al, in press), strategic learning (Mitchell and Buckingham, 2021), service-learning (Mitchell and Buckingham, 2021) and sustainability management (Rangarajan and Joshi, 2018). Prior research emphasizes the balance of hard (technical) and soft (human) skills (Mergel et al, 2016) in public administration education.…”