Exploring the Quality Assurance System of the Master of Public Administration Talent Cultivation in the Context of New Liberal Arts Construction

The construction of new liberal arts is a useful exploration and great attempt by the Party and the State to modernize China’s higher education based on the strategic position of national rejuvenation and talent cultivation. Also, it brings unlimited opportunities for the cultivation of master’s degree in public administration. This paper summarizes and refines the characteristics of the construction of new liberal arts and its overall requirements for master degree talents in public administration, combs through the current development of domestic public administration disciplines and the practical problems in talent cultivation, and build a “four-dimensional” talent training system based on the “means-ends chain” analysis framework. The “four dimensions” include institutional innovation, practice platform, guarantee mechanism and curriculum reform, and the “one body” emphasizes the quality-oriented cultivation of postgraduate students. On this basis, the practical path, characteristics and effects of this system in the quality assurance of Master of Public Administration cultivation are analyzed in depth. This paper aims to provide a reference for domestic universities to accelerate the cultivation of master’s degree talents in public administration in the process of modernization of higher education.