For over 30 years, Montreat College’s School of Adult and Graduate Studies has empowered students to acquire essential skills, complete their degrees, and advance their careers. Montreat offers undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs both in the classroom and online.
With six start dates a year for most programs you have the flexibility to start when makes the most sense for you. Chances are we have classes starting in the near future, providing you the opportunity to move forward with your academic goals. Please see the admissions page for specific enrollment and start dates.
Applicants must submit the following for admissions consideration:
Apply for admission today!
Start your success story at Montreat.
Earn an affordable and flexible Master’s in Management & Leadership (MSML) at Montreat College. This online degree is designed for upwardly mobile professionals seeking leadership skills to motivate and manage people and enhance personal effectiveness. Our challenging and engaging courses focus on real-world situations, helping you develop as a knowledgeable and confident manager and leader.
No GMAT or GRE is required to apply. Students come from diverse backgrounds. Regardless of your work experience, this degree will help you grow as a proficient leader.
Courses are offered online.
The MSML program requires completion of 33 credit hours. If students take a full-time load each term—one class at a time continuously throughout the program—they should complete the program within 24 months.
The courses for this graduate program are eight-week sessions. There are 2 sessions in a semester. To be considered a full-time graduate student, a student must take 6 credit hours per semester. The student must take 1 course (3 credit hours) the first eight-week session and 1 course (3 credit hours) the second eight-week session. Semesters in this program are Spring, Summer, and Fall.
Montreat College programs are competitively priced, and we offer multiple forms of financial aid to help you achieve your educational goals. Please see the current AGS Tuition and Fees page here. Also, please keep in mind that there are multiple college and government financial aid programs available to help mitigate the cost of your education. You can learn more about your financial aid options.
The U.S. Bureau for Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts the job market for management jobs will is growing 8% from 2016-26. Job options include: marketing managers, architectural and engineering managers, computer and information systems managers, construction managers, financial managers, food service managers, medical and health services managers, education administrators, public relations and fundraising managers, non-profit managers, sales managers, and many more.
According to the BLS, people in management occupations earn an average annual salary of $104,240. However, the amount of money that such professionals make depends on many factors, including region, industry, and specialization.
BUSN 5110 Foundations of Leadership and Communication
This course introduces students to business graduate studies at Montreat College and elaborates on the foundational skills required for leaders. Topics covered include: character development, ethics, stewardship, critical thinking techniques, self management skills, communication skills, and collaborative learning.
BUSN 5811 Personal Leadership Development: Theory and Practice
This course explores leadership traits, styles, roles, and responsibilities of successful leaders over the course of history. This course provides exercises designed to identify students’ individual strengths and weaknesses with the goal of greater self-awareness and personal development. Additionally, students will apply leadership principles in their own lives and critically reflect on the leadership styles they exhibit.
BUSN 5612 Data-Driven Decision-Making
This course focuses on using data and developing models for real-world decisionmaking. This includes understanding topics such as probability and risk, reading charts and graphs, as well as understanding behavioral aspects that affect decision-making, such as heuristics. Students will participate in decision-making exercises, as well review real-life case studies in decision-making.
BUSN 5208 Accounting and Financial Skills for Leadership
This course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the basic skills in Accounting and Finance necessary to the business leader. Topics include financial statements, financial statement analysis, budgeting, and time value of money.
BUSN 5427 Creating, Leading, and Managing Highly Effective Teams
This course focuses on the nature of group work and the attributes of highly effective teams. Team formation, team roles, teambuilding, and leading high-performance teams will be practiced through group projects. Pulling from social sciences, human resources development, and psychology, students will be challenged to explore leadership, management, and organizational design principles from multiple perspectives.
BUSN 5508 Ethics, Law and the Global Business Landscape
This course is a survey of legal and ethical issues facing management in complex global business situations. Legal and ethical question are addressed in a case study method. Traditional ethical theories are studied and applied to contemporary global business issues. This includes the nature, formation, and system of law in the United States, and how it relates to international business. Additionally, personal and group ethics will be explored through projects and exercises, for the purpose of character formation.
BUSN 5414 Developing and Implementing Strategy
This course prepares students to lead strategy development and implementation through the strategic planning process. Competition and competitive advantage will be investigated, using Porter’s 5 Forces model. Also, case studies, examples, and exercises will be used to help students understand the essence of good strategy and to be able to lead positive strategic change in both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
BUSN 5435 Strategic Human Resources Management
This course explores critical issues in human resources strategy, leading and developing the organization’s most important assets and developing and keeping people. Students will research organizational learning, employee motivation, employee assessment, methods for identifying and developing leaders, succession planning, and current topics in HR management.
BUSN 5817 Leadership, Management, and Organizational Behavior
Drawn from the behavioral and social sciences, this course examines leadership theories and management issues as they relate to organizational behavior. Students will compare and contrast leadership and management behaviors, assess theories of motivation, and write papers on topics such as organizational culture, intercultural diversity, knowledge management, team and group dynamics, and office politics, other organizational issues influencing management decisions.
BUSN 5711 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This course focuses on developing innovation and creativity as key competencies related to entrepreneurship. New mental models and processes will be employed, teaching students to think differently and identify the opportunities that are all around them. Product development and problem solving will be taught through the use of exercises, games, and business case review.
BUSN 5458 Managing on the Edge of Chaos
This course investigates the nature of variability and probability in systems. Process development, system design, and quality thinking will be studied from a “classical” perspective, before plunging into the science of non-linear systems, emergence, and complexity theory. Leadership and management will be reviewed in regard to systems existing on “the edge of chaos” between order and disorder. Prerequisites: All other courses in MSML program.
