公共管理证书通过一系列对公共管理专业重要的核心课程为公共雇员提供基本技能。这些课程提供基础知识和技能，可提高公共服务专业水平。许多公共雇员在许多技术领域拥有学士学位和研究生学位，但是缺乏公共管理的基本管理领域。公共管理证书通过完成一小部分课程（例如公共管理，人力资源管理，预算和组织理论）为公共服务员工提供技能，知识和培训的桥梁。这些课程对于理解公共组织，提高公共工作者的绩效以及政府机构为我们的社会提供的宝贵服务至关重要。
The University of Montana's Department of Public Administration and Policy is the first of its kind in Montana. The mission of our department is to provide a cutting edge public sector education for our students from high-quality faculty committed to applied research and teaching. Our department offers a variety of degrees: Master of Public Administration, certificates in public policy, nonprofit administration, and public administration, and an undergraduate minor in nonprofit administration.The Certificate in Public Administration offers public employees the fundamental skills through a series of core courses important for the profession of public administration. These classes provide basic knowledge and skills that enhance the level of professionalism in public service. Many public employees have bachelor and graduate degrees in many technical fields but lack the basic managerial areas of public administration. The Certificate in Public Administration provides a bridge for public service employees to gain skills, knowledge, and training by completing a short set of classes such as public administration, human resource management, budgeting, and organization theory. These classes are critical for understanding public organizations, and enhance the performance of public workers and the valuable services government agencies perform for our society.