The Master’s in Organizational Leadership is an interdisciplinary degree which builds on your experience as a member of society interacting with a wide variety of institutions to learn how to effectively develop others and accomplish organizational goals. Members of a society conduct their daily lives engaged with their educational, political, cultural, religious, commercial, familial, community and governmental organizations. These organizations require effective and flexible leaders and followers to enable members to adapt to inevitable change and maintain a well-functioning society.
In the M.S. in Organizational Leadership program, you will learn and practice how leaders recognize opportunity and motivate individuals and groups, and how and why followers choose people to lead them. To provide you with a deeper understanding of how leaders and followers accomplish and adapt, you will study the theories and strategies of leadership, conflict negotiation, critical thinking, and ethics and change, as well as how to manage information and technology, and analyze human behavior in cultural contexts.
The organizational leadership master's degree is a hybrid program that incorporates both classroom and online coursework. A completely online program is also available.
For more information, contact Elizabeth M. Stork, Ph.D., associate professor of Organizational Leadership at stork@rmu.edu or (412) 397-6879.
The M.S. in Organizational Leadership is a 30-credit degree program comprised of seven required courses (21 credits) and three concentration courses (9 credits).
The M.S. in Organizational Leadership degree program is designed to accommodate both full-time and part-time students. Courses are offered in eight-week sessions. You can take one course each 8-week session, including summer, through the year and complete your degree in less than two years. You can take more than one course each 8-week session and complete your degree in less time.
Two study options are offered: one with eight classroom sessions, each with an online component; and another in a fully online format. In the fully online option, all course work is completed online in 5.5 hours per week. No class meetings are required. In the partially online option, courses combine classroom study with an online component. These classes meet for two hours one evening per week, and require an additional 3.5 hours per week online.
Members of a society conduct their daily lives intersecting with their established educational, political, cultural, religious, commercial, familial, community and governmental organizations. These organizations require effective and flexible leaders and followers to maintain a well-functioning society and enable members to adapt to inevitable change.
Faculty members in the School of Communications and Information Systems, Department of Organizational Leadership, are dedicated to teaching, academic research, and bring their own professional experience into the classroom. As guides and mentors, they inspire students to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in their academic pursuits and in their lives. Their professional experience and community involvement helps students apply what they’re learning in the classroom to real-world applications in the workplace and beyond.
In summer 2012, our school’s five departments will be housed in a new building on the Moon campus. The structure will include classrooms, computer labs, media arts studios, editing suites, a gallery, teleconferencing facilities, faculty and administrative offices, student meeting spaces and a café. Facilities currently available include the Pod room with both PCs and Macintosh computers, remote access to 5 servers for web pages, database, and security programs, and general university resources such as the VMware View Server. We also have access to geographic information systems software and business intelligence software.
In an effort to help students meet their education expenses, Robert Morris University offers the following tuition payment options. On the posted due date, payments are accepted until 5 p.m. in the Student Support Center. Payments may be made via ePay after the deadline.
Robert Morris University accepts tuition payments by cash, check, money order or credit card (Visa, MasterCard or Discover). Tuition payments may be made to the Office of Student Financial Services by mail, phone (412-397-6260), or online via the RMU website at www.rmu.edu. Students should log in to Sentry Secured Services and go to Financial Status in eServices to use the ePay - PayNow option. ePay is available 24 hours a day to process credit card or check payments.