The predecessor of the academy is the Higher Party School of the
Communist Party of Ukraine that was established in 1946. It was initially quartered at the Stelmashenko Gymnasium building in Kyiv that was built in 1910. In 1986 for the school was built own
functionalism-styled building in place of the
NASU acclimatization garden. With the
fall of the Soviet Union, property of the Communist Party was confiscated and the school's building was transferred under the administration of
Kyiv University.In 1992 the former Higher Party School was converted into the Institute of State Administration and Self-administration of
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine which in 1995 was replaced by the Ukrainian Academy of State Administration of
President of Ukraine. In 1996, regional divisions of the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine began operating in Dnipro, Lviv, Odesa, and Kharkiv, which in 2001 received the status of regional institutes. By the Decree of the President of Ukraine of August 21, 2003 № 869, taking into account the significant contribution to the development of public administration in Ukraine, as well as taking into account national and international recognition of its results, the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine was granted national status. Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine. On 5 November 2020 President
Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the transfer of the proprietorship of the National Academy of Public Administration from the
State Tax Service of Ukraine to the
Ministry of Education. This decision was made on the basis of an application by the
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The academy will be attached to it. == Research activities ==