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2017-18 Graduate & Non-Traditional Catalog | School of Business

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 Credits:

Because of the integrated design and cohort-learning structure of the graduate programs in the School of Business, it is critical that all students complete the required sequence of courses together. Therefore, in lieu of transfer credit students may be eligible for Advanced Standing Scholarships. An Advanced Standing Scholarship will be awarded for a course that would be considered transferrable, but does not replace the course within the graduate program.  Students approved for Advanced Standing Scholarships will be required to complete the designated course with the scholarship covering related tuition costs.

Students requesting an evaluation for the Advanced Standing Scholarship based on previous graduate coursework must submit course descriptions and/or syllabi for the relevant courses for review by the Program Director.  The following guidelines apply:

  • Only courses with an earned grade of B or better from an accredited institution may be considered.
  • Courses will only be considered if the Program Director determines there is sufficient coverage of relevant material and concepts.
  • A maximum of three courses can apply the Advanced Standing Scholarship for a graduate business program.

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 Organizational Architecture and Strategy
  • BUS 550MS (3)  Strategic Marketing
  • BUS 580MS (4)  Accounting for Strategic Decision Making
  • BUS 536MS (3)  People Development Strategies that Build Competitive Advantage
  • BUS 515MS (4)  Financial Management
  • BUS 530MS (3)  Problem Solving and Project Team Leadership
  • BUS 510MS (3)  Organizational 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.