Model of Managing in Master of Public Administration Program Run by the Public Universities in Thailand‘s Central Northeastern Region

Abstract

The objectives of this research were three--fold : 1) To study theachievement of Master of Public Administration Program run by the Publicuniversities in Thailand's Central Northeastern Region(TCNR) ; 2) To study thefactors affecting the aforesaid program and 3) To propose a Management modelof Master of Public Administration Program of the State-run Universities in theTCNR. The present study was in line with that of the mixed Method betweenqualitative and quantitative one. The target group was one of ProgramChairman, regular teaching staff , program supporting staff and employers of thegraduates from a respective university which all made the grand total numberof the 54 cases. On the other hand ,the samples for Quantitative data werethose of the graduate students of the grand total number of 120 cases.Theresearch tool in this regard was that of the in-depth interview guide as well asthe focus group discussion and questionnaires .The Qualitative data wereanalyzed in favour of content analysis and Quantitative data were analyzed by adescriptive statistics : frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation andLinear Regression Analysis as to find out the causal relations factors affecting thepublic administration program.The Research findings were as followings :1) As regards the achievement of Master of Public AdministrationProgram run by the Public Universities in the TCNR, it was found that on thewhole of the achievement of Managing in Master of Public AdministrationProgram was ranked high in all 3 aspects (X = 4.13, S.D. = .492).2) As regards the factors affecting the Program management it wasfound that the factors affecting the management of Master of PublicAdministration Program run by the public Universities in the TCNR were thoseof the graduate study management which had influences over predicableoutcome up to 81.60 %.3) As regards the model of graduate study in Master of PublicAdministration Program run by of Public Universities in TCNR, it was found thatthe Program run by Executives should pay more attention to the factors of thegraduate study management which all would a good success in the programmanagement.