Program Mission and Goals

The mission of the M.S. in Management program is to offer a professional graduate degree that combines a foundation in management with a mix of concentrations that serves students from varied educational backgrounds and prepares them for successful careers in a wide variety of organizations.

The M.S. in Management program seeks to satisfy several, complementary goals:

• Create an attractive 4+1 graduate professional degree that will prove appealing to students from the Arts and Sciences and professional schools.
• Combine a mix of business fundamentals and selected concentrations that will be attractive to a wide variety of hiring organizations, profit and not-for-profit, leading to employment opportunities both domestically and abroad.
• Build on the university’s strengths in undergraduate education with graduate programs that provide opportunity for our graduates to continue their education at Elon.