Master of Management

The Master of Science in Management (MSMGMT) degree program develops students' leadership, management, and analytical skills for a rapidly changing global environment. 

This program provides students with a comprehensive understanding of management theory, practices, and techniques, enabling them to apply these skills in a variety of organizational settings. 

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  • Program Details

    Each semester in the Graduate International MGMT Program, students take four (4) credit hours in a hybrid 16-week format with an online component and a mandatory weekend face-to-face residency and three (3) credit hours in a fully online 8-week class. 


    • Hybrid Coursework allows you to study wherever you are with only one 3-day residency required each semester.

    • Competitive tuition

    • Knowledgeable Faculty


  • Degree Outlook

    Graduates of an MS-MGMT program will be well-equipped to take on leadership roles in a variety of industries, including consulting, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and technology.


    Median Pay: $93,000 per year 

    Typical Entry-Level Education: Bachelor's

    Work Experience in Related Occupation: Less than 5 years

    On-the-job Training: None

    Number of Jobs: 950,600

    Job Outlook, 2021-31: 11% (much higher than average)

    Employment Change, 2021-31: 108,400


    Above information sourced from 2021 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statics


  • Admission Information

    Applicants for the MGMT program submit the following:

    • Graduate International Application for Admission

    • Documentation of language fluency for non-native speakers of English such as a score report from TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo

    • Students applying for residency and an F1 visa must provide a copy of their current passport. 

    • Provide official transcripts of all attempted credit from previously attended colleges and universities (transcripts from schools outside of the US need to be evaluated from WES, ECE, IERF, EP, or InCred

    • Complete a signed curriculum contract 


  • Curriculum Summary

    Graduate Business Core

    BUAD 500 Managerial and Leadership Analysis

    This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, whether a full company, department, division, or other strategic business unit within an existing organization by getting the right things done through teams of people. It addresses the common management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.


    BUAD 505 Management Information Systems 

    This course will investigate issues relevant to effectively managing Information Technology (IT). The functions of and information systems organization will provide the basis for exploring challenges facing Management Information Systems (MIS) managers and e-Business. Management of the fast and ever-changing information systems (IS) environment will be a recurring theme. 


    BUAD 515 Marketing for Results 

    The use of organizational mission to develop a marketing approach to reach potential constituencies with image, product and service that will cause those constituencies to utilize the organization to meet their perceived needs in a manner that is profitable to the organization. 


    BUAD 600 Organizational Behavior and Teamwork

    This course responds to the increasing need for cooperative skills in concurrent design and engineering projects, interdepartmental committees, quality circles, self-managed work teams, and relationship selling. Self-awareness is the foundation of group dynamics. Areas to be covered include individual differences; personality; emotional intelligence; learning; ethics; decision making; and motivation. Group dynamics is understood to be a pillar of organizational success. Areas covered include communication; group dynamics; leadership; trust; power; and change. Both experiential and theoretical approaches are used to deepen understanding.


    BUAD 610 Leadership and Human Behavior

    Apply leadership principles to the managerial role; examines the behavioral issues related to the interaction of leaders, followers, and situations; reviews challenges, standards, organizational cultures, structures, motivation, and workplace conflict.



    MS MGMT Electives

    Students choose five elective courses (15 credit hours) from our selection of BUAD classes, or one of the concentrations listed below to finish out their degree program.



CONCENTRATION


Students may elect to add a concentration to their MGMT degree program.  These optional 12 credit hours enhance your graduate degree and will add a level of distinction to your resume. 

  • Computer Science Application


    The program includes four courses covering specific computer science applications in healthcare, construction, and development. The courses will cover techniques, tools, and technology used for improving business decisions through cloud-based tech, machine learning, and deep learning.


    Students pursue Computer Science Application education for employment in the Computer Science industry.  Target Industries include information systems, healthcare, construction, and development.


    Computer Scientists earn an annual average salary of $131k. Job growth in Computer Science is expected to grow by 21% over the next decade, adding over 31,000 US jobs each year. 


    CSA 610 Computer Science Application

    This graduate level course provides an introduction to computer science applications.  Topics focus on techniques, tools, and applications in computer science for improving business decisions. 


    CSA 620 Current Emerging Technology

    This graduate level course focuses on Cloud Technologies, DevOps, serverless computing, machine learning, and deep learning. Topics include emerging technologies in the discipline of computer science applications.


    CSA 630 Business Analysis for Computer Science Applications

    This graduate level course focuses on the art of eliciting requirements from users and subject matter experts. The Business Analyst will develop clear and unambiguous requirements to support the development model proposed by the team. Requirements will serve as input for the development lifecycle for methodologies such as Kanban, Agile, or Waterfall.


    CSA 640 Data Modeling, Warehousing, and Database Management

    This graduate level course focuses on the design and management of the construction of databases, related software programs, and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, the linkage and correlation with data warehousing, data mining, database theory, data modeling, and technical architecture.

  • Information Systems Data Science


    The program includes four courses that will provide students with a strong foundation in information systems data science, preparing them for employment in the data science industry. They will learn practical skills such as data visualization, data mining, and artificial intelligence, as well as innovative strategies to improve business processes.


    Students pursue Information Systems Data Science education for employment in the Data Science industry.  Target Industries include information systems, healthcare, construction, and development.Data Scientists earn an annual average salary between 68k and $135k. Job growth in Data Science is expected to grow by 20% over the next decade, adding over 350,000 US jobs each year.

     

    ISDS 610 Data Visualization and Communication 

    This graduate level course provides an introduction to data visualization theories, techniques, and tools for analyzing business data and improving business decisions. 


    ISDS 620 Data Mining and Warehousing 

    This graduate level course introduces a broad set of practical data analytic skills based on data discovery, cleansing, building real analytic applications on real data. These skills include accessing and transferring data, applying various analytical frameworks always keeping business goals in mind. 


    ISDS 630 Design Thinking 

    This graduate level course focuses on products, services, user experiences, architectures, and innovative strategies to improve business processes. The course covers the design thinking methodology providing solutions approach to solving complex problems, using the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test). 


    ISDS 640 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 

    This graduate level course introduces students to analytical technologies and the fundamental methods, techniques, and software used to design and develop systems. This course is focused on analytics and its enabling technologies, including AI, machine-learning, robotics, and chatbots.


  • Information Systems Project Management

    The program is designed to provide students with a specialized education that prepares them to pursue employment in the project management industry. By the end of the program, students will have developed skills in cost-benefit analysis, project selection, stakeholder identification, resource planning, quality management, risk management, and project team leadership, among other competencies.


    Students pursue Information Systems Project Management education for employment in the project management industry.  Target Industries include information systems, healthcare, construction, and development.


    IS Project Managers earn an annual average salary of $105k. The project management industry exceeds $4 trillion in annual revenue and is expected to grow by 30% over the next decade, adding over 200,000 US jobs each year. 


    ISPM 610 IS Project Initiation

    This graduate level course provides an introduction to information systems project management with specific attention to cost-benefit analysis, business case development, project selection, stakeholder identification, risk identification and the project charter.


    ISPM 620 IS Project Planning

    This graduate level course examines topics in information systems project management with specific attention to the work breakdown structure, resource planning, organizational charts in project planning, and the elements of project planning, communications planning, procurement planning, quality management planning, change management planning and risk management planning.


    ISPM 630 IS Project Execution

    This graduate level course examines topics in information systems project management with specific attention to obtaining and managing project resources, executing tasks in the project plan, implementing the quality management plan, change management, risk management, and leading the project team.


    ISPM 640 IS Project Monitoring and Controlling

    This graduate level course examines topics in information systems project management with specific attention to performance measurements, project control and performance metrics, cost analysis and variance trend techniques, risk identification and analysis.


Gather your supporting documents and visit our Graduate International Application for Admission to begin your educational journey at Union College.


Contact Us


Graduate International Admissions

Phone: (606) 546-1620


Union College

310 College Street

Barbourville, KY 40906



gradonline@unionky.edu

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