Department of Public Management and Administration

General Information

PURPOSE OF THE DEPARTMENT – to ensure high-quality professional training of bachelors, masters and postgraduate students in the specialties of the department, to provide thorough knowledge of management disciplines to students of Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law, and to conduct scientific research in the fields of management and administration, public management and administration, and the service sector.

HISTORY OF ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
The Department of Public Management and Administration was established in 2000 under the name "Department of Regional and Municipal Management", headed by Doctor of Economics, Professor L. I. Neikova. From 2002, the department was headed by Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor V. V. Romanova. In November 2004, by decision of the Academic Council of the University, the department was renamed the "Department of State Management and Local Self-Government" and was headed by Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor V. V. Romanova, Doctor of Public Administration, Professor V. M. Oluiko and Doctor of Economics, Professor V. I. Pyla. In June 2016, by decision of the Academic Council of the University, the department received its current name – Public Management and Administration – and was headed by Doctor of Public Administration, Professor N. M. Tkachova. Since September 2020, the department has been headed by Doctor of Public Administration, Professor E. V. Shchepanskyi.
In February 2007, by decision of the State Accreditation Commission, Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law was granted the right to train senior management personnel of higher qualification in the field of public administration for Khmelnytskyi and adjacent regions – masters in the specialty "State Service".
Since 2016, the faculty, in particular the specialised department, has trained bachelors in the specialty Public Management and Administration, and since 2017 – in the specialty Tourism. In the 2016–2017 academic year, postgraduate studies in the specialty Public Management and Administration were licensed, and doctoral studies were opened in the specialties Mechanisms of State Management and State Management in the Field of State Security and Protection of Public Order in the field of knowledge State Management.
From 2017 to 2020, a specialised academic council functioned for the defence of dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration in the specialties Mechanisms of State Management and State Management in the Field of State Security and Protection of Public Order. In 2023, the educational programme "Bachelor of Tourism" was accredited.

THE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYS 25 academic and teaching staff, including 6 Doctors of Sciences, Professors, and 14 Candidates of Sciences, Associate Professors – recognised specialists in economics, public administration and management.