Management, Master of Science

The Master of Science in Management is a degree in management or administration with a strong focus on preparing organizations to survive the requirements of the growing, competitive global economy.

With Wilson’s focus on innovative and successful management, our ability to be nimble in keeping courses current with the ever-changing regulatory and economic environment, and to offer a curriculum centered around a core group of courses with various tracks students can pursue based on their varied undergraduate and work experiences and desired career paths, differentiates our program from the traditional management or administration programs offered by other institutions.

Specifically, our program content from traditional management or administration programs by:

• Focusing on organizational sustainability; meeting the requirements of the ever-changing and growing global economic pressures, namely, cost, quality and availability; and providing specific strategies for diverse organizations to financially survive with growing global competition.
• Providing a common core of required courses that is supplemented by electives that may be customized to meet student and employer needs. The electives may be taken from a single area of emphasis or across several areas of emphasis, thereby enabling students to complement their prior education and work experience or prepare them for a new career path.
• Providing courses not normally found in traditional management or administration programs, such as process reengineering and Lean Six Sigma.
• Allowing an organization, if its employees constitute a cohort, to request that specific material be covered in the program; and developing a customized course or courses to meet their needs.
• Allowing an organization, if its employees constitute a cohort, to request that specific issues or problems they have encountered be woven into the fabric of the course content, providing the organization with consulting services without concerns about access to proprietary information.

If an organization wishes to specify course content or desires the consulting services described above, but doesn’t have 15 students in the program to define a cohort, we can proceed with fewer than 15 students if the organization makes satisfactory financial arrangements with Wilson College.

Our program is also different in the channels of marketing and delivery by:

• Marketing the program to diverse employers.
• Allowing the entire program to be completed online.
• Using technology to provide virtual, face-to-face classes through Zoom video technologies.
• Offering the program anywhere in the country while maintaining the intimacy of a classroom environment, yet allowing the program location to be online and convenient to every student.

Admission to the Master of Science in Management Program

Degree program admission is based on the following criteria:

• Completion of a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.
• Completion of an application for admission to the Master of Science in Management program.
• Two letters of recommendation from educators or employers. Letters should be sent directly to the program coordinator.
• Official transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate colleges and universities attended must be sent directly to the program coordinator.
• Resume.
• Personal interview with the director of the Master of Science in Management program (may be accomplished by phone).

Provisional Status

Provisional status allows a student to enroll in classes in order to qualify for admission to the degree program. A student may be granted provisional status after a written plan of action that will assist the student in meeting the entrance requirements of the program has been approved by the program director.

If granted provisional status, the student must complete entrance requirements before being officially admitted to the program.

Transfer Credits

Courses taken toward another degree cannot be transferred to the program, although courses at the graduate level taken in another degree program that are in addition to those necessary to meet the other degree’s requirements can be transferred to the program. No more than three courses may be transferred from other institutions.