Doctoral research in policy design, implementation and evaluation across health, education, climate and economic policy. Coursework in advanced methods and causal inference, then an original dissertation supervised by published faculty.
Mada University for Science & Technology teaches this award to one academic standard whether you study on campus in Warsaw or on the tuition-free online pathway. Assessment is identity-checked; the marking scheme does not change with your postcode. This is an academic doctoral award; where a field has a licensing or registration route, that remains a matter for your professional body or regulator.
You will work through the material as a practitioner-researcher: applied methods, real or anonymised cases, and a supervised capstone or dissertation as the final component. Faculty mark whether you noticed the constraints a slide deck usually hides.
PhD Public Policy is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 3–5 years, and the credit total is 60. Students move from Public Policy Processes & Institutions through Public Policy Processes & Institutions; Political Economy & Development; Statistics & Data for Policy; Ethics, Positionality & Public Value; Impact Evaluation & Causal Methods; Cost-Benefit Analysis & Public Budgeting, and finish on Writing Briefings & Board Papers.
Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students say who decides, under which rule, and draft a note a professional could read. Reading is a statute or instrument, a case or policy paper, and a commentary. The artefact a marker expects is a memo or draft clause with sources and a revision note.
The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Analyse a policy problem with the right method — evaluation, cost-benefit, political economy Read a budget and an expenditure line for what it actually funds Design an implementation plan that survives contact with a delivery unit
Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass.
This course is academic. It does not admit the student to practise law and it is not a qualifying law degree.
The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
The programme carries 60 credits, structured as doctoral coursework followed by supervised research. Delivery is tuition-free (0) on the online pathway. Transcripts use letter grades and a GPA scale consistent with Mada University for Science & Technology awards. No professional-body logo is used in marketing to imply endorsement.
Find your programme
Start your application
Study from anywhere
