Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer

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The Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer is a highly specialized postgraduate university renowned for its focus on public administration and governance. It primarily serves to educate and train senior public sector professionals, offering advanced Master's and doctoral programs in administrative sciences, public law, and public management. For international students, the university offers programs like the Master of Public Administration (MPA), often with English-taught modules, and hosts an International Summer School, providing a unique opportunity to engage with comparative public administration. The International Office provides dedicated support, and its distinctive characteristic is its role as Germany's leading institution for postgraduate education and research in public administration, fostering an interdisciplinary and internationally-oriented approach to governance challenges.

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The German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer (German: Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer; sometimes referred to as Speyer University), is a national graduate school for administrative sciences and public management located in Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Founded in 1947 by the French occupational authorities as a grande école, today it is operated under the joint responsibility of both the Federal Republic (Bund) and all 16 German states (Länder). It runs four Master's programs, grants doctoral degrees and habilitations, offers a postgraduate certificate program, and administers programs of executive education. The school is a major training ground for German and international senior government officials. Noted alumni and faculty include former President of Germany Roman Herzog, Professor Niklas Luhmann; former Minister of Defence Christine Lambrecht, current Justice at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Heinrich Amadeus Wolff, former President of the Bundesbank Helmut Schlesinger, former Prosecutor General of Germany Alexander von Stahl, and CEO of BASF Jürgen Strube...

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