Today’s businesses are becoming leaner and more agile, led by management teams with diverse talents and abilities. Individuals in management are enhancing their skills through educational offerings that may carve out an advantage. Practical and industry-current, CTU’s Master of Science in Management program can give students the opportunity to extend their knowledge as it strengthens their tactical abilities to benefit the entire organization.

Taught by instructors, many of whom have relevant management experience in today's complex global business environments, the curriculum combines technical leadership skills with managerial abilities to produce effective agents of change.

In this industry-current curriculum, our project-based Professional Learning Model™ can engage you with complex, real-world situations and challenge you to become adept in developing strategies to improve organizational performance, while ensuring critical operational needs are met. The CTU PLM™ is designed to place you in the active role of collaborative problem-solver and project initiator, that may help you acquire marketable skills as you study and learn how to harness analytical, research and critical thought expertise to evaluate and implement emerging technologies—including revolutionary Web 2.0, e-commerce and global business initiatives.

The CTU Master of Science in Management is designed to help meet the need for a competitive new breed of leadership and management professionals. Successful completion of the MSM program can provide students with an applicable foundation of relevant qualifications, including how to:

• Lead and direct technical initiatives and operations
• Analyze and develop strategies for improving business processes and operations
• Integrate technology and operational processes into the organization
• Evaluate emerging technologies and their impact across the organization
• Apply analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate emerging technologies
• Work effectively as problem--solving team member
• Conduct, use and evaluate professional applied research

The CTU Master of Science in Management's program architecture consists of research methods, leadership, managerial decision-making and operations management, integrated with a solid practical research foundation. Building on this program core, you can have the opportunity to tailor the degree program to meet specific job responsibilities, organizational needs and your individual goals. For example:

• In Strategic Management in Dynamic Environments, students can examine methods to predict competitive behavior and develop and implement strategic plans to achieve and sustain a competitive profile in the emerging global marketplace.
• In Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making, students can review and analyze the concepts of leadership versus managerial roles and responsibilities and examine how societal expectations for ethical behavior and regulatory scrutiny affect both leaders and managers in an organization setting.
• In Applied Managerial Decision-Making, the course may emphasize the practical application of descriptive and inferential statistics to decisions made in a managerial role.
• In Graduate Research Methods, students can have the opportunity to learn how to formulate research questions, develop research proposals, perform a literature search and analysis, understand sampling and measurement, analyze data and write and present a research report.
• In the Management Capstone, students can demonstrate the application of content, concepts, and knowledge developed in previous core and concentration courses in their specific academic program. The course may require the completion of comprehensive research, analysis, and study in either a selected area of interest or a current business issue impacting the learner’s organization or company. Students could complete an in-depth project utilizing discipline-specific strategies. Research methodologies can be used to prepare a formal report.

Students in the Master's of Science in Management degree program select 28 credit hours of 600 Level Business and Management Courses to form the concentration portion of their curriculum.