Strategic Leadership, M.S.
[Strategic Leadership—0506]
Joel R. Hoomans, Director
The Master of Science in Strategic Leadership Program is a unique advanced degree program that equips emerging leaders to provide ethical fortitude, inspiring vision, strategic agility, business acumen, humble service, and a capacity to build effective teams, organizations, and communities. It is a cutting edge and challenging program where developing managers and leaders can engage the faculty, staff, and students from a diverse cross-section of industries and organizational segments that include entrepreneurial start-ups, fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit, government, church, military, and other organizations…emerging only seventeen months later as scholar practitioners who are equipped with the new knowledge and skills necessary to create significant value for themselves and their organizations. This is the next generation graduate business degree.
This program is built upon proven adult learning techniques, offering a high quality, cohort-based, time-shortened approach to education at the graduate level. Curriculum includes a solid mix of leadership, management, and professional education, with an emphasis on application of theory to the work environment. Classes are scheduled one night weekly with a period of just seventeen months to completion. This program is offered on campus, at several off-campus locations, and online, with groups starting throughout the year. Admission to this program is open to both experienced professionals and a select but limited number of early-career professionals who are interested in sharpening their leadership skills.
Admission Criteria:
- Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution
- At least two years of practical, verified work experience in a business or management capacity in a for-profit, nonprofit, or entrepreneurial capacity
- GPA of at least 2.75 on a 4.00 scale (depending on depth of professional experience)
Transfer Credit: See Institutional Policy.
SPECIFICS OF THE STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP, M.S. DEGREE
Minimum Total Hours: 40
Minimum Requirements: Cumulative GPA of 3.0 with no grade less than C.
Credits in the Program:
- BUS 500MS (3) Organizational Leadership
- BUS 540MS (3) Leadership Ethics
- BUS 590MS (3) Buisness Research Methods
- BUS 575MS (3) Strategic Leadership
- BUS 525MS (4) Economics of Org Architecture and Strategy
- BUS 580MS (4) Accounting for Strategic Decision Making
- BUS 550MS (3) Strategic Marketing
- BUS 536MS (3) Dev. Strategies that Build Competitive Advantage
- BUS 515MS (4) Financial Management
- BUS 530MS (3) Problem Solving & Project Team Ldrship
- BUS 510MS (3) Organiz. Diagnosis and Change Management
- BUS 560MS (4) Strategic Management
* Additional Workshops are required.
For further information about this program, please contact Master of Science in Strategic Leadership Enrollment Counselor at 585.594.6024 or GradBusiness@roberts.edu.