Graduate Programs
Master’s Degree
in Professional Studies
Master’s in Professional Studies (MPS)
This Master’s Degree program provides a high quality, affordable and accessible graduate program for qualified students whose opportunities for seeking appropriate level employment, career advancement, and personal and professional enrichment will be enhanced by a Master’s in Professional Studies in Organizational Leadership. The MPS in a 30 credit hour program with structure and curricular design emphasize learning directly relevant to professional employment. The Masters in Professional Studies in Organizational Leadership focuses on various for-profit and non-profit professional fields.
Flexible Schedule
The Masters of Professional Studies can be completed in as little as 14 months if the student aims to complete the program in a short amount of time with a mix of face-to-face and online courses. Students with a large amount of responsibilities (work, family, etc) outside of coursework can take fewer classes to meet their individual academic needs.
Program Objectives
Graduates of the MPS – OL program, will be able to…
- Employ advanced oral and written communications skills based on critical reasoning, principles of rhetoric and refined written composition.
- Apply an ethical decision-making model to complex professional situations.
- Competently provide personnel motivation, conflict resolution and facilitation of team building.
- Engage in ethical applied research in order to organize and interpret data for the sake of evidence-based decision making, problem solving and planning.
- Apply background knowledge of the history of leadership in order to adapt effective leadership styles to various situations.
- Execute essential leadership operations with knowledgeable competence.
- Develop and lead high-impact, results-focused change initiatives.
- Apply various legal parameters which are relevant to for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Coursework
Core Courses (required)
- MPS 500 – Rhetoric, Reasoning and Communication
- MPS 501 – Professionalism in Ethics in the Digital Age
- MPS 502 – Organizational Dynamics
- MPS 503 – Methods of Applied Research
Organizational Leadership Areas of Emphasis Courses (required)
- MPS 504 – History of Modern Leadership
- MPS 505 – Essentials of Leadership Operations
- MPS 506 – Legal Environments of Organizational Leadership
- MPS 507 – Applied Research Project (Must have completed MPS 503)
Electives (any 2 required)
- MPS 508 – Leading Organizational Change, Creativity and Diversity in a Global Economy
- MPS 509 – Organizational Risk Assessment and Decision-Making
- MPS 510 – Understanding Leadership through Biography
- MPS 511 – Current Issues in Leadership
- MPS 578 – Special Topics in Professional Studies
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Percent Change in Employment 2028
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Source: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/financial-managers.htm