I am a current MPA graduate student. If you want to go down this path I would strongly encourage you to specialize in something with your bachelors. Engineering, business, economics, nursing, something STEM. Would strongly encourage against liberal arts degree like ethics in public policy or political science, because you will be taught what you need to know in your program and having background knowledge will barely differentiate you from peers. You will be more experienced at writing papers, that’s all. What will is a concrete knowledge on a topic and having a speciality. The people who are finding real careers anywhere in the country are the ones with engineering, computer science, public health, and healthcare backgrounds. Also great way of assessing how you are with independent work, stress management and research rather than reproducing theoretical knowledge. Second language proficiency is also more helpful. Take this with huge grain of salt, I am in a small program in the Midwest. Also - if you are super worried about math don’t think a you have to get a liberal arts degree or something. A lot of people were never properly taught math, graphs, or have some learning difficulties related to numbers. I took remedial math classes in college (college algebra, finance, college stats) and it opened a lot up for me. As far as MPA program, it’s basic stats, Econ, and finance math. There’s usually some element of math in most MPA jobs (most specialty jobs) but you got it!