Graduate School of Public Development and Management

The Development Academy of the Philippines enjoys its own Charter and is legally empowered to offer graduate degree programs.

Its first degree program, the Master in Public Management (MPM), was created in 1991. In 1992, then President Cory Aquino awarded the Corazon C. Aquino Presidential Endowment Fund to support the creation of the Institute of Public Management (IPM), which was to operate the MPM program. Then, on 17th January 1994, the DAP
Graduate School of Public and Development Management (GSPDM) was brought int  ...