During professional practice stages students use the skills and knowledge previously acquired via formal classes, create networks, find mentors, enter into contact with citizens and their problems and obtain much needed professional experience, while simultaneously improving their theoretical knowledge and skills as a result of working side by side with practitioners in host organizations. As such, the main goal of this paper is to provide a general overview of professional practice in Romanian public administration education by looking at the undergraduate students’ satisfaction regarding the practicum stage in different host institutions. The data (N = 89) collected from undergraduate students in a public administration program allows us to explore: their satisfaction with different aspects of professional practice (ranging from resources to new knowledge acquired), the strengths and weaknesses of practicum, the perceived utility of such activities and potential improvement measures. Going further than a simple descriptive analysis, our data also shows that the perceived benefits of professional practice can be reduced to two latent classes of utilities/benefits: those related to the new skills and knowledge acquired and the interactions with practitioners and citizens.

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罗马尼亚的公共行政教育和专业实践：探索学生的感知

在专业实践阶段，学生使用以前通过正规课程获得的技能和知识，建立网络，寻找导师，与公民和他们的问题取得联系并获得急需的专业经验，同时通过工作提高他们的理论知识和技能与东道国组织的从业人员并排。因此，本文的主要目的是通过查看本科生对不同寄宿院校实践课程阶段的满意度，来提供罗马尼亚公共行政教育专业实践的总体概述。通过公共管理课程从大学生中收集的数据（N = 89）使我们能够探索：他们对专业实践的各个方面（从资源到获得的新知识），实践的优缺点，这种活动的效用和潜在的改进措施的满意度。除了简单的描述性分析之外，我们的数据还表明，专业实践的感知收益可以减少为两种潜在的效用/收益：与获得的新技能和知识以及与从业者和公民的互动有关的收益。