Regional strategic partnership’s development in the preparation of graduates of the university educational program “state and municipal administration”

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of the professional community’s request for universal competencies of graduates of the university program “State and Municipal Administration”. A theoretical review of modern publications in the subject area under study made it possible to assess important trends in the development of the competence profile of a modern specialist in the field of state and municipal administration. The study of the directions of strategic partnership in improving the graduates’ competence profile was carried out on the basis of an expert survey of 54 state and municipal employees of Stavropol Krai (Russia). The survey database was formed in the SPSS Statistics program (version 23), a factor analysis of 20 universal professional qualities was carried out; we identified latent characteristics of the success of professional adaptation and effective activity of graduates at the workplace. Research approaches to assessing areas of strategic partnership and understanding the professional community’s request for learning outcomes under the educational program “State and Municipal Administration” contribute to the information, analytical and methodological support of university education and socio-economic development of the region.