Graduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Oct 04, 2024  
Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

Strategic Management, M.S.


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The Master of Science in Strategic Management is designed to develop competent business professionals who are equipped with the core concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management. Students completing this degree will be prepared to step into a management or leadership position within an organization.

Students completing the M.S. in Strategic Management will be able to:

  1. Utilize advanced knowledge of management.
  2. Develop advanced analytical and critical thinking skills to evaluate information, solve problems, and make sound ethical decisions in the different areas of management.
  3. Formulate management strategies designed to allow the organization to achieve its objectives.
  4. Examine the ethical and legal responsibilities of managers.

Students can earn the MS, Strategic Management in either a fully online format or an executive format combining online and on-site study. The Executive format program requires attendance at weekend residency classes. Further, the Executive MS, Strategic Management Program meets the needs of international graduate business students. This program provides both in-seat and online coursework. Graduate students joining the Executive MS, Strategic Management program will be employed or conduct projects in business-related positions and participate in Applied Learning Practicum, in which students apply what they are learning in their program to the real world via work or internship experiences.

Notes:


*All online students who are seeking to earn this degree must take this course in lieu of INTR 599, in addition to meeting all program degree requirements. Executive format students can substitute the required INTR 599 course in lieu of this course as part of their program degree requirements. 

** Executive format programs have an applied learning component (internship or practicum) that is an integral and essential part of the established curriculum. Due to the applied learning component required for the degree program, Executive format students must enroll in INTR every term of enrollment. 

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