Degree in Public Administration

The LAP is a BAC+3 diploma. This course enables students to strengthen their knowledge of the legal and economic bases, and to gain a better understanding of the operation and organisation of administrative institutions from a national and European perspective.

Le projet de ce diplôme est destiné aux salariés de la fonction publique ayant suivi un parcours de droit. Il concerne aussi le demandeur d’emploi remplissant les conditions citées pour le public en reconversion.

The programme includes public law, European law, political science, economics and public finance.

Graduates with a bachelor's degree usually go on to study for a master's degree, a specialised school or the Grandes Ecoles, to train for jobs in accounting and public finance, human resources, law and administration in public and semi-public organisations (social security, Urssaf), or to prepare for administrative competitions in the state, regional and hospital civil services.

• Helping to prepare government action
• Implementing the resources needed to carry out administrative action
• Preparation and drafting of administrative and budgetary documents
• Initiating projects at local, departmental, regional and national level and helping to implement them
• Assessment of the compliance of field practices with regulatory programmes, measures and texts
• Intervention in the field, either as a preventive measure (opening of rights, issuing of authorisations), or as a means of control and redress (administrative notifications, prosecutions, investigation of disputes)

Cross-disciplinary skills :

• analyse an administrative text on the basis of the fundamental aspects of the organisation and powers of the State, local authorities and social security authorities, including their links with the European Union
• Situate the main public policies in a historical and territorial perspective
• Identify the legal, financial and economic bases for the operation and activity of public administrations
• Use concepts from the social sciences and a general administrative culture to produce summaries and analyses of public administration

Recruitment level : BAC + 2

Accessible in Continuing education (evening classes)

Admission requirements On the basis of an application in a number of cases:

• Students with a validated L2 (2nd year) degree in Law, AES, Economics, Management, Human Sciences, etc. or those who have already completed 2 years of higher education (economic and commercial preparatory classes, BUT/DUT legal careers).
• Holders of a BAC+2 or equivalent, compatible with continuing their studies in the 3rd year of the LAP.
• Depending on experience, validated by the VAPP85 commission

Sectors of activity

• Public administration
• Human health and social work

Career opportunities

Most positions in the civil service are open to candidates who have passed a competitive examination:

• Assistant manager of health or social establishments
• Administrative agent
• Local Development Officer
• Town hall secretary

After passing a competitive examination :

• Territorial, central administration and decentralised services attaché
• Treasury, tax, customs and labour inspectors
• Director of Youth Judicial Protection
• Territorial editor
• Administrative secretary
• Integration and probation adviser