the intellectual roots of public Administration as a Discipline are traced to the pioneering contribution made by Woodrow wilson in the 1880's wilson,through his essay,The study of Administration stimulated interest in and stressed the need for a scientific study of delineating the conduct of government as a field for analytical study and generalisation,and the beginning of public Administration as a subject of enquiry .Woodrow wilson provided the rationale for public Administration to be an academic discipline and professional specialty. Though Wilson asserted that the aim of his work was to administrative studies,the essay is regarded as the beginning of public administration as a specified study. A significant feature of Wilson's contribution was that he wrote the essay when he had no personal experience of American administration and his article was regarded as a significant trail-blazing effort. Wilson did not follow his early success in this field either with teaching or research though his later works contained elements of his administration thought.