The Victoria University of Wellington offers a course, normally of two years' duration, leading to a diploma. A candidate must be a university graduate or otherwise satisfy the advisory committee that he is able to undertake the course. There are two sections: a preliminary section comprising political science, comparative political institutions, social and economic history of New Zealand, public economics I, and one of three options; and a final section comprising public administration, public administration in New Zealand, administrative law, and public economics II.