This two-year master’s program in Management aims to train teachers, researchers, managers, or professionals who show:

1. analytical capacity to deal with different practices in the field of organizations, public policies, and management;
2. competence to carry out and disseminate consistent academic research in the context of contemporary society, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity;
3. competence to teach reflectively and innovatively according to the principles of the learning process;
4. ability to manage organizations respecting their singularities and context.

NPGA faculty and students have created an intellectual environment rich in learning, collaboration, and academic leadership. Throughout the program, students are encouraged to (a) participate in program activities and scientific events, (b) develop academic and technological production, and (c) qualify their management practices.

NPGA classes, activities and research are based on academic, organizational and social relevance. The disciplinary diversity of its student body favors an enriching cultural and educational exchange. NPGA professors and students research phenomena that arouse interest in both the academia and the most diverse types of organizations in contemporary society.

The target population of the academic doctoral program is composed of students, researchers, teachers/professors, or managers who seek to develop analytical and reflective skills to study the complexity of organizations, management, and their connections with society. Students with an undergraduate or master's degree in Management are welcome, as well as those with a degree in related fields such as Economics, Sociology, Engineering, Anthropology, Computing, Psychology, Political Science, Arts, Statistics, Education, among others.

NPGA promotes international learning through several actions:

• students show proficiency in English upon admission;
• many mandatory readings are only available in other languages, especially in English;
• some curricular components, courses, and lectures may be offered in English;
• students and professors are encouraged to participate in scientific events and publish (support for linguistic editing of articles accepted by high impact journals);
• foreign students are attracted to the NPGA courses.

Undergraduate students are encouraged to (a) course the disciplines of the master's or doctoral programs as special students with the possibility of using these credit hours; (b) participate in extracurricular activities (events, debates) carried out by graduate students; (c) attend master's thesis and doctoral dissertation defenses; (d) participate in research activities supervised by professors through undergraduate research scholarships. Master's students are encouraged to (a) teach undergraduate components, disciplines and/or classes; (b) act as monitors, lecturers, and evaluators of Undergraduate Final Projects (Capstone Projects) at the undergraduate programs; (c) articulate their research projects with undergraduate research fellows and supervision of Capstone Projects at the undergraduate programs.

Credit hours in undergraduate or graduate courses in Management may be required as a way of leveling students who do not come from the Management area and who have a strong need to comprehensively understand the main themes and debates in the field of studies on management and organization.

At the end of the third semester, master’s degree students who want and comply with the requirements set out in the course regulations (see specific Normative Instruction on the topic) can progress to the doctoral course, with no need for a new selection, and defend their dissertations, provided that their requests are formally made at NPGA secretary at the beginning of the third semester and duly approved by the NPGA board.