Mid-career credit for all concentrations except National Security:
Applicants for the UNF-MPA program with relevant professional experience may be eligible to have 3 or 6 credits waived from the default 42 credit requirement. Recent graduates from a Bachelor's degree program, and with little professional work experience, will require a total of 42 credits: 39 credits of course work, as well as PAD6946 Internship in Public Administration (3 Credits). Applicants with at least one year of full-time relevant professional experience will require 39 credits of course work, with the internship requirement waived. Applicants with at least five years of professional experience, at the managerial level (with budget authority, or in policy development) may have 3 elective credits waived in addition to the internship, and so will require a total of 36 credits. In the case of either the 36 or 39 credit option, the student must submit a letter from the relevant supervisor(s) attesting to the requisite level of experience. This must be done on application to the program, or by the end of the first semester of coursework.

Mid-career credit for National Security concentration:
As mid-career Navy officers or equivalent, applicants for the UNF-MPA program National Security concentration are eligible to have 6 credits waived from the default 42 credit requirement.

Undergraduate Accelerated Bachelor to MPA program:
Accelerated Bachelor to MPA students are not eligible for mid-career credit. Students from the UNF Accelerated Bachelor to MPA program who have successfully met the admission requirements of the MPA program, may count toward the MPA 12 credits of 5000-6000 level MPA classes taken as they must take the remainder of the MPA curriculum, an undergraduate, in which grades of B or higher are earned, including PAD6946 Internship (3 Credits).

In order to graduate from the program: grades of C or above are required in all MPA courses; grades of B or above are required in at least 6 of the 7 required core courses; and MPA students must meet the minimum graduation requirements for master's degree students at the university. All students must apply for graduation during registration for the last semester of courses in the program. Deadlines are published online.

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