Master of Science in Management (MSM)
The Master of Science in Management (MSM) was instituted by the University of St. Francis in the fall of 1995 and enhanced in 2005 to focus more on leadership.
By addressing the skills needed for success and offering practical applications of these skills and theories to everyday work life, the University of St. Francis has become nationally recognized for providing educational opportunities to working professionals. Employers presently place an increased emphasis on hiring and retaining employees with advanced degrees. In turn, employees with advanced degrees, on average, earn a higher salary. The MSM program provides business professionals who have non-business undergraduate degrees the opportunity to build on their management skills and knowledge.
Business leaders today need to enhance and emphasize their leadership skills more than ever. The MSM program increases the confidence of business professionals, empowering them to take their careers to a new level. The MSM emphasizes communication, managerial use of information, and supervisory skills, focusing on the human side of management. Students gain useful skills in planning, team building, written and verbal communication, the use of technology to solve business problems, and leading with integrity and a sense of ethics.
The entire MSM program is offered online. In addition to the online format, there are some elective classes offered one evening a week or on six all-day Saturday sessions.
The objectives of the curriculum and student outcomes are:
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To provide qualified persons with the skills needed to be
professional managers
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To develop knowledge and skills in particular managerial
functions
- To
provide breadth of insight that comes from in-depth study
of the management discipline
- To
give humanistic dimension to the education of managers
- To
cultivate the ability to think cogently and apply tools
to managerial decision making
- To develop the awareness that effective leadership requires empathetic understanding of the needs and motivations of individuals within an organization
NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
The M.S.M. program provides students with the opportunity to be a member of Delta Mu Delta, a national honor society in business administration with a growing membership of 130,000. For membership eligibility, students must have completed at least half the requirements for the degree with a minimum cumulative 3.6/4.0 G.P.A and be in the top 20% of their class.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
To be considered for admission, a student must have at least two years of significant work experience and a bachelor degree with a minimum 2.75 GPA from a regionally accredited college or university.
Computer competency is required.