Alumni

MPUP programme provides us with an excellent platform to further develop our depth and breadth of learning, sharpen our critical thinking skills, and equip ourselves for our career pursuit. I have gradually developed a comprehensive view on public policy through the curriculum with a wide range of aspects including policy progress, economics, global finance, and crisis management. MPUP programme emphasizes our ability to balance the interests amongst diverse stakeholders, which is essential for both policy makers and consultants. Thanks to MPUP, I have met so many excellent professors and classmates! I believe MPUP programme will benefit my future career and life a lot.

Working at the Division of Global Engagement at UC Santa Cruz, my major job duties include advising prospective incoming and outgoing students, providing support to international scholars and promoting internationalization by supporting custom projects at university and even community level. The solid experience and learning in MPUP is practical for my career development. The comparative skills learnt in courses have helped me identify the crucial differences in cultures. Also, studying with students from different backgrounds and being a student representative of the Programme have provided me a platform for cultural exchange and advancing interpersonal skills.

As a member of the Government, I have a lot of opportunities to take part in various policy making processes. It is important for me to have a comprehensive understanding of these public policy making processes and to identify critical factors and stakeholders in major stages of policy making. Through studying in MPUP, I have equipped myself with professional and practical knowledge and my understanding in the field of public policy has been deepened. MPUP provides students with an interactive learning environment. During the in-class discussions and other learning activities, my classmates and I had many opportunities to exchange views on specific topics. It helped further develop my critical thinking skills and analytical ability. Having obtained the MPUP master’s degree, I have achieved advancement in my professional development as well as in pursing my career and life goals. I am confident that I can apply what I have learnt in MPUP in my work and life.

As a policymaker, having a holistic view on the situation and the ability to balance the interests of different stakeholders are always required in every decision making process. The interdisciplinary structure of MPUP programme not only deepens my knowledge on policies, it also provides me with multiple thinking models from political science, economics and many other different disciplines. I believe only through having a comprehensive view on the current situation and understanding on theories could policymakers make decisions required by the people they are serving. MPUP would be one of the best ways for you to prepare yourself to be a future policy maker.

MPUP is very useful for me. Courses such as Crisis Management and Global Finance and Governance equipped me with valuable knowledge for my current career fields on Public & Civil and Finance. CUHK is definitely an excellent university in the profession of Public Policy. That’s why I believe all MPUP graduates would have a bright future and brilliant career development.

During my study at MPUP, I have gained a lot of useful experience and knowledge which are beneficial for my career planning. MPUP motivated me to investigate and analyse issues from wider angles and from perspectives of multi-stakeholders, moreover, it helped me develop practical abilities and a spirit of innovation and service, which have had a significant impact on my career path and cultivated me to be a well-rounded person. From my point of view, MPUP is a programme providing students with holistic education academically and practically, trainings to improve students’ critical thinking, and heedful care from professors, who are not only good teachers but also close friends of students.

As my background is an electrical engineer, the programme has brought me to a new horizon of learning. Through the programme, I have acquired skills and knowledge in public policy such as agenda setting, policy formulation and adoption, government efficiency and policy economic analysis which are very useful for my daily works.

MPUP is a brilliant programme with good teachers and good classmates, covering a variety of subjects. Economy, environmental issues and humanities are all covered in the programme. Your mind will be opened to new ways of seeing things, under a series of intensively critical-thinking training in various courses. Studying in MPUP, not only would your qualitative abilities be reinforced, but your quantitative skills would also be sharpened. Simultaneously, you can get acquainted with new friends in the programme. Peers around you are like-minded, so you would be inspired by each other. The excellent classmates and friends would make you keep working hard. Thus, I say that MPUP is a precious experience, from which we can gain life-long benefits.